Agent 345 watches from her perch high up in the tall pine tree she had taken refuge in. The gunshot wound to her right leg hurt and was killing her. She had managed to stop the bleeding and do a rough bandaging job to protect the wound. She watched silently from her hidden position as the patrol of were-cats passed underneath her. She knew she had cross the invisible mystic boundary line all Packs and Pride’s use to mark their territory. At one time, she would have attacked them and subdue them and waited for the rest of her team to come in and kill them. She was trained as a scout. That was her job, and she loved it. She enjoyed the cat and mouse game she played with her enemies. She didn’t like killing and hated it when she was forced to do it. The HSL couldn’t accept the fact she preferred to subdue her opponent. Her instructors always forced her to take their lives.

The HSL had raised her to hate and kill all Were’s and other non-human’s. She was trained for that purpose. She used to follow her orders like a good solider and do what she was instructed to do, until she learned the truth about herself. The HSL had genetically engineered her in one of their genetic laboratories. She was the last of their genetically engineered soldiers who were designed to fight the non-human races. She had been told and shown that her parents had been killed by a pack of Were-wolves. That the wolves had come in and killed her parents for no reason, other than for being human. They showed her pictures of the crime scene and even the resting place of her parents, where they were buried. She had accepted this as truth and never suspected that they lied to her about her life. They had trained her from the time she took her first steps in ever style of hand-to-hand combat and martial arts combat known. She was educated with the rest of her brother and sisters to only hate and kill the non-human races. They had reinforced their teaching at night, while she slept with their hypnotic cd and dvd’s. She never had a normal childhood. The HSL had always had her training. The only disappointment they had about her was the fact she had been born mute. In a lot of ways, she had figured out that the HSL prefer her that way. It meant she wouldn’t be able to ask question like some of her sisters and brothers had. She was their best achievement. She had the Were’s speed, endurance, reflexes and strength. She had a high IQ and could move as quietly as the cats among the different Pride’s. The only drawback her superiors saw about her, was her size.

She was short and petite, not tall and curvy, like the rest of her sisters and brothers. They could go toe to toe with any of the Were’s no matter what shape they were in. She on the other hand, was very short and petite. She had the height of a ten-year-old girl. The advantage she had was the fact she could get in close and use the knowledge she had of the nerve clusters in the body of either form and disable her opponent. She could make it so they couldn’t move any part of their body she hit. The other advantage she had over her sisters and brothers was the fact she had no scent about her. Her body never gave off any scent what so ever. Even the body tight specialty suit she wore was design to neutralize any scent she may pick-up along the way. The doctor’s that watched and examine her, couldn’t understand why her body was like that. They had always watched and examine her, her whole entire life.

It wasn’t till she got curious one day about her family and started researching into her family past. To see if she had any relatives, that she came across the truth. The file they had on her was marked as top secret. When she opened the file, and found a DVD in there with her id code on it, she got curious and watched it. It showed the doctors involved in creating her. How Dr. Louis Hick’s had used a sample of DNA they had in storage from some remains stored in storage at area 51. The genetic code had turned out to be from a human body they had found frozen in the ice down at the South Pole. The DNA turned out to be more advance then any human DNA they had ever seen. They tried splicing in DNA from Were’s and non-humans to see what would happen. What they discover was that DNA they had was immune to the virus that causes a Were to become a Were. She knew they had tried to use it in some of the other people there, but it didn’t work. It just made them sick and finally killed them. However, when they had spliced it into the embryo she had come from, it worked. It changed her make-up and enhanced her. Once she had been borne, they wasted no time in educating and training her to hate others who weren’t pure human. They never gave her a name. She was simply 345 and once she had reached agent status, she was known simply as Agent 345.

She was scared, but knew she needed their protection. She drops down out of her tree and lands on her feet. The five snow leopards that had been sent to investigate the intrusion into their property turn around ready for a fight. She lowers her weapons to the ground and falls on to her knees before them with her hands above her head. She wishes she could tell them she surrenders, but she couldn’t speak. Her vision starts to blur as she watches one of them change from a snow leopard and into a human. She passes out and falls face forward into the earth.

Jamal had been picked today for patrol. He was glad to have an excuse to get away from the manor house for a while. His father and mother were going to host a party for some friends of theirs this week and he really didn’t want to get involved in the planning process. He preferred to be out in the woods enjoying nature. It was where he felt at home and more himself. He and two of his body guards, plus three others had been picked, when the boundary alarm had gone off alerting them to the fact their area had been crossed. He knew a squad from the HSL had always been sent into his parent’s territory to kill off some of their people. The last time they had penetrated his parents’ area, they had gotten almost to the manor house. The HSL squad had killed twelve of their people. One of the twelve they had killed was his cousin Jennifer. She wasn’t a very good fighter, but she could track better than anyone they had. He remembered the one that had killed his cousin. He was the biggest warrior among the squad that had gotten close to the manor house. He was built like his father and was just as ruthless as his father was when he fought.

Jamal and his team take it slowly as they approach, where the alarm had gone off at. They spread out to cover more ground and see if they could detect a scent. They all knew there was one among the HSL group that had no scent, but that person wasn’t a combative person. They knew she was their scout and normally stood back and watched the fighting, instead of taking part in it. The few times one of his people engaged her, she always left them alive and unable to move. He finds some blood spots and starts following it. Just as he was about to follow the trail to the tree it was leading to. He hears a snapping of a tree limb and turns around extremely fast, ready to fight whoever it was.

The person he had just been thinking about was standing right in front of him. She was short for both his people and for her own. Her body was accented by the tight outfit she had on. It showed how slim and petite she was. He thought she looked more like a teenager, then a grown woman. He and the others watch as she places her weapons on the ground. They could smell fresh blood on her. Which was unusual? Normally they couldn’t smell anything about her. He watches as she kneels and places her hands above her head. As he shifted from his hybrid form into his human form, he watches as she fell face first into the ground underneath her and does not move.
He kneels beside her and turns her over. He notices the bandage wound on her right thigh, and how much blood she has lost. He scoops her up into his arms and was about to carry her.

“Why are you helping her, my Prince? She is the enemy and responsible for the death of your cousin.” As one of his body guards look at him holding her.

“She wasn’t the one responsible for killing my cousin. She never took any one’s life she fought, unless she was ordered to by her leader. I’ve seen her fight and she always made sure she never took a life. She had plenty of opportunities too, but she never did. She always left them where they were and went on her way.” He looks down at her. She weighted nothing and her features were coved up by the cloak and clothes she wore. The only part of her face he could see underneath her hood was her eyes. The rest of her face was covered up, so that only her eyes were visible. One of his bodyguards pick up the weapons she had been carrying. Which was a set of sai and a semi-automatic pistol with four fully loaded magazines?

His team heads back to the Manor house, where his Aunt was located. She was the healer among their Pride and could help this woman in his arms. He was careful as he ran with her in his arms. He had already sent a mental request to his Aunt as they stepped through the front door of the Manor house. He takes her up stairs to the bedroom they had set aside for her. His mother and aunt along with several other women who worked in the manor were waiting for him.

“Lay her on the bed Jamal. We’ll take care of her wounds.” His mother watches as he lays her gently down on the bed
He carefully lays her down on the bed and then leaves the room to let his mother and aunt take care of her. He paces outside her room for about an hour, before everyone comes out.

“Will she be okay, Mother?” He looks towards his mother for an answer.

“Yes! She should recover with no problems. You never told me or your father how young she was. She’s no older than a teenager. She isn’t even an adult yet.” Joyce couldn’t believe what they saw when they had taken off her outfit and found a teenager underneath the clothes.
They had figure from all the reports her husband was getting on this person, that she was an adult that had extensive training. Instead what they had found, was a teenage girl with straight shoulder length pure white hair and icy blue eyes? She had found a bar code tattoo on the side of the girl’s neck and several scars from either training or from fighting on her body. They had a hard time cross matching her blood type. Every time her sister had tested the girl’s blood, it wouldn’t match anything they had on hand. Her sister had to mix different blood types together, to come close to what the girl had inside her body.

“I didn’t know mother. We all assume she was an adult. It is unusual for the HSL to send teenagers against us. We all figured she was an adult that had extensive training. Even when her hood had been ripped from her, she was still covered up underneath it. The only part we could see was her ears and eyes.” This was new to him as well.

“Why don’t you come and tell me and your father how you capture her.” Joyce looks towards her sister.

“Do you want to join us April or do you want to stay here and keep an eye on her.” She could tell her sister didn’t like the fact she had helped to take care of one of the people responsible for her daughter’s death.

“I’ll stay and watch her. I have some questions I would like answered.” April looks back towards the room the person they had brought in was sleeping. She knew among her people, she was called the Shadow, after the old action radio character of the 1930.

Joyce puts her hand on her sister “Alright, just be careful and keep an eye on her. Remember, she’s our guest here and she came to us.”
Joyce could understand how her sister felt. The HSL team took her only daughter. Joyce walks off with her son towards her husband’s office to inform him about their visitor.

April heads back into the room and takes a seat next to the bed, where their visitor is sleeping. She had seen the girl’s body, when her and her sister had cleaned up her wound. She looked younger then Jennifer when she had died. The girl’s blood type wasn’t any of the normal ones. She had to mix the different types to get anywhere near the girls. She wonders what type of species the girl was, because she knew she wasn’t pure human. Her blood type was wrong and there was something else about this girl, she couldn’t put her finger on.

Agent 345 was peacefully sleeping. She never knew how quiet natural sleep could be. The people who trained and raised her, always made her go to bed wearing headsets. The headsets would program her subconscious with everything she would need to know. They used it to program her every night. She didn’t feel as tired as she normally did when she woke-up every morning. She slowly opens her eyes and look around. She notices she was in a nice room that had a canopy top. There was a woman with shoulder length dirty blonde hair watching her.
She looks over towards her and wonders who she was.

April notices the young girl looking at her. The girl’s icy blue eyes watched her every movement. It was like how she and the rest of her Pride watched their prey.

“How do you feel?” She was directing her gaze towards the girl’s eyes.

Agent 345 just looks at her. She understood what she was saying; she just didn’t know how to respond to her. Among the medical people who tended to her, she just gave them a thumb up. She glitches her fist and gives the woman the thumb up signal.
April tilt’s her head to the side and wonders why she had given her the thumb up for her question. She looks at her and wonders if the girl was going to do something. She narrows her eyes and watched her.

“I’m not going to hurt you. Me and my sister healed you and I was wondering how you felt.” She kept her eyes on the girl.
Agent 345 gives her the thumb up signal again. She didn’t know what else to do. She couldn’t speak and she didn’t know how to sign. She was never taught how to.

April wonders what was wrong with the girl. She could tell she was thinking about something from her facial movements. The one thing the girl did was keep eye contact on her. If she had been facing an Alpha, that would be consider a challenge, but the girl wasn’t. She wonders about something and concentrated on the girl.

“Can you hear me?” April projects her thoughts to the girl.

Agent 345 nearly jumps out of the bed when she hears a voice inside of her head.

April took that as a yes “It’s okay little one. You are hearing my thoughts inside your head. Is there a reason you won’t speak to me?”

“Yes! I can’t speak. I was born mute and don’t know how to answer any one, except with certain hand gestures I was taught.” Agent 345 couldn’t believe it. She heard her own mental voice. She keeps her eyes on the woman sitting across from her.

A smile appears on her face. So, the girl wasn’t perfect. That would explain why she was so quiet out in the field.

“Do you mind if I speak to you like this?” April watches the girl.

“No, it is easier to speak to you this way. I wouldn’t know how to explain myself to you, the other way.” Agent 345 kept her eyes locked onto the woman watching her.

“Do you have a name?”

“Yes Ma’am. I’m called Agent 345.”

“That’s not a name for a girl like you. Why do they call you that?”

“Because I was the three hundred forty fife agent they trained. The only other name I have been called is 345. That was before I reached agent status. All my other sisters and brothers have names as you called them, but I was never given one. I learned a couple of days ago I’m not even a real person.” Agent 345 looks down at the blanket covering her as she breaks eye contact with April.

April could feel the girls’ shame, when she thought those words.

“Why do you feel that way?”

“Because it makes me feels like my whole life has been a lie. I was taught to hate your kind, when in fact I am just like your kind. I was created in a lab and engineer to fight your kind. I am not a pure human as they have always taught me that your kind aren’t”

“What do you mean we aren’t pure humans? I’m just as human as you are.”

“Not according to what I was taught. You have a monster inside of you, which kills without reason or feelings.”

“You mean my beast. Only people, who are not trained, kill without reason or feelings. Our beast only defends itself from those who wish to kill us. You yourself are guilty for killing the innocents. I have never killed someone, unless I was protecting myself or my Pride. You and your kind killed the innocent without cause.”

“I now realize that. I do not like or enjoy killing. I’ve been told nothing, but lies about your kind my whole life.” Tears start to form on 345’s face as they slide down from her eyes.

“Why did you come to us? You could have gone anywhere, away from here and away from us?”

“Because I have wrong your kind and helped in the killing and capture of your people. I feel that I owe you for my crimes against your Pride.”
April looks at the girl. She was willing to submit to their laws and punishment for what she did to her people.

“I will pass that information onto my Alpha and let him decide your faith. I can tell you are telling the truth about what you say. Still, why come to us. I know you say that you owe us, but why come to us any way?”

“Cause, other than the HSL. Your Pride is the only people I have ever had any contact with. The HSL kept me separated away from other people, except those working at our base. I know nothing about the outside world, except what I was told or shown and most of it was the bad stuff about your species. I know more about your people and your Pride as if I grew up here among your kind. I have watched certain members of your Pride as they carry on with their lives and such. I have seen the kindness in your Alpha and his wife as they watched over their people. I have even witness the kindness that some of your other Alpha’s have shown when they visited your Pride.”

April was surprise at that omission. She was surprise at how much this girl knew about her Pride.

“So, you wish to join our Pride?”

“Yes! I have come to understand your Pride and feel comfortable being among them.”

“How old are you?”

“Fifteen, I have been told that I am very mature and Intelligent for someone of my age. I started watching your Pride when I was only twelve years old.”

April was surprise at how young this girl had started. Her people would have never allowed their young to go into combat at such a young age.

“Why did your superiors let you go into the field at such a young age?”

“Cause they wanted to see if all the training they gave me would pay off. I’ve been learning how to fight and kill your kind since I could walk. I was bred to fight your kind.”

“Are there any others like you?”

“No, I am the only one. All my brother and sisters were born naturally and experimented on. I was engineer from the beginning to be the perfect warrior.”

“But, you can’t speak.”

“I know. I don’t think they expected that side effect or if they did, they never let onto it. I believe they are happy that I can’t speak back to them. My brother and sisters would occasionally question them on things they were told or wanted to know more about.”

“What will they do now that you are free of their control?”

“Nothing, I killed everyone and freed my brother and sisters. They all wanted their freedom, because they were tired of being used and lie too. The one that killed your daughter was killed by me. He was out of control as is. He tried to rape me, because I seemed to be the HSL’s favorite and to put me in my place. He knew I didn’t like killing and he didn’t like that. So, when he tried to sneak attack me, I killed him by making his heart explode inside of his body.”

April sat there and thought about what the girl said. She had come to hate the people who came into their Pride to kill her people and her daughter. Now she has one sitting in front of her, who not only was asking permission to live among them, but had killed the one that had taken her daughters’ life. She looks at the young girl and could see the tiredness in her eyes now and how she felt. She had felt the sadness in her head when she spoke to her, but now she could see it in her body.

“I am going to go and speak to my Alpha about what you have told me. I’ll make sure no one disturbs you while I am gone. Why don’t you lie back down and get some more rest while I am gone?”

“I will, but before you leave. I wish to give you something to pass onto your Alpha. Do you know where my clothes are?”

“Yes!” April reaches down into a basket, where they had put her clothes in. She was going to have them clean for her.

She brings the basket up and puts it next to the girl.

Agent 345 reaches into the basket and locates her cloak. She reaches into a conceal pocket and takes out a small black usb drive. She hands the drive to April.

“Tell him it has all of the HSL locations and their supply houses. It even has the name of a few of their snitches who are in different territories that are working for the HSL. Its password protected and encrypted. The pass word is A|9h@ and the key to decrypt the info is in a file named sunshine.”

April accepts the small usb drive. “Thank you. Go ahead and lie back down. I don’t know how long I will be, but when dinner is ready. I’ll have some brought to you, if I don’t return by then.”

“Yes Ma’am.” Agent 345 yawns and snuggles up back under the covers on the bed and falls asleep instantly.

April picks the basket up off the bed and takes it out of the room with her. She’ll drop it off with Marge to have it cleaned and repaired.

She thinks about the conversion she had with the girl. She knew she was telling the truth about everything. She felt it in the girl’s mind. The question now was what they should do with her. Her brother in-law should know what they had talked about. When she reaches his office, she could hear her sister and nephew talking to her brother in-law.

She knocks on the door and then walks into his office. When she enters, there was not only her sister and nephew, but Troy. Troy was her brother-in-law’s second in charge. She knew his wife Carol was out of town, visiting another Alpha at her brother-in-laws request.

Cain looks over towards his sister-in-law “What have you learned April?”

“Well, for starters, she’s is younger then we suspected. She’s only fifteen years old. The HSL has been putting her into the field since she was twelve years old. She also does not have a name. She calls herself Agent 345. That is the only name she has ever gone by. She is mute and doesn’t know how to communicate with any one, except through certain hand gestures the HSL taught her. She also wishes to ask for membership into our Pride. She feels comfortable here and would rather be with us, instead of out on her own.”

“How can she ask that, after what she has done to our people?” Troy was angry. He lost a pack brother to one of their attacks.
April knew how he felt. She looks directly at him “She wasn’t the one responsible for killing your pack brother. She only scouted ahead to give them a route to take. She’s not a killer, unless she has too.”

“Why do you say that April?” Cain was curious, why his sister-in-law would stick up for this girl.

“Because I’ve been inside her head. It was the only way to talk to her directly. You wouldn’t believe the things they put her through. She came to us, after killing the ones responsible for making her and for killing my daughter. She wanted me to give you this Cain. It has information on it, which you can use to hurt the HSL badly.” April hands the usb drive to her alpha and brother-in-law.

Cain accepts the small drive and lays it beside him on the desk. He’ll look at it later, after they have talked about this girl.

“What else have you learned about her?” Cain wanted to know everything possible about her.

“Allow me to share my conversion I had with her.” She closes her eyes and touches each one of their minds to relay what her and the girl talked about.

April holds nothing back and lets them hear everything that was shared and felt. Afterwards she opens her eyes and look at everyone present.

Cain and Troy both look at her “She seems to trust you April. It’s hard to believe that the HSL would go as far as they did to create someone to fight our kind. Do we know what she is exactly?”

“No! I was going to send a sample of her blood to Doctor Elizabeth Smith. She’s a friend of mine and one of the best genetics doctor’s I know. Her sister is a Doctor in the Shadow claw pack. I would like to adopt the girl, since she isn’t of legal age. I will assume all responsibility for her.” April felt it was the right thing to do for the girl.

“Are you sure about this April? You know there are a lot of people among the pride that would like to see her dead, for her part in the killing of their family and fellow pride mates.” Cain knew he might have to talk with his people and make sure they understood she wasn’t to be touch.

“Yes! I’m sure about this. She may be a little responsible for her part in the murder of my daughter, but she didn’t commit the act herself. She did kill the person who was responsible for the act. Taking away my vengeance, but I understood why she did what she did. The person she killed tried to rape her and make her submit to his will. She killed him by making his heart explode inside of his body.” April couldn’t believe what the girl had said to her.

“Wow! I would like to know how she did it.” Troy was impressed with that statement. If it was true, he wanted to know how to do that as well.

“Where is she now?” Cain already knew, but wanted to hear it as well.

“She’s asleep in the room across from mine. Jose is standing guard by her room. He’s been ordered not to allow any one in, except those we have asked to look after her.” April knew Jose would follow her orders to protect the girl.

“Cain, I think it might be best if we give her a name. Right now, she is only known of as a number. The HSL didn’t bother to ever name her, because she was meant to be a weapon for them.” April had been thinking about this, since finding out about the girl’s background.

“I agree. It might be better if we keep who she is quiet for now. Since no one has really seen how she looked or smelled, it shouldn’t be a problem. I’ll let you choose a name for her or ask her what she would like to be called. Once you know, let me know and I’ll have papers made for her. Do you have the sample of her blood you would like tested?”

“Yes.” April pulls a test tube out of her pocket and hands it to Cain.

He takes it and just looks at it. He couldn’t see anything special about it, but he had some feeling, it wasn’t normal either.

“I’ll have it sent off at once.” Cain takes a protective package off the self behind him and put it inside to send off.

“Well, since there’s not much to do now. Why don’t we go ahead and finish our business we were discussing before this came up?” He looks towards everyone present.

April sat in a chair near her sister and thought about what she would name the girl upstairs.

Agent 345 had settle down for another nap. She felt that she was making the right decision about leaving the HSL and coming here to this Pride. It felt right to her. She knew from the first day she infiltrated the Pride and observe how they lived together and how they respected one another was something she missed. She had watched as mothers watched over their children. She was treated as a weapon and never had a mother who treated her like these mothers did. Hell, she was always surrounded by men. None of them ever took any interest in her, unless she did something they liked during her training. Even her brother and sisters had normal families they came from and went back to see. The only difference between her and them was the serum they used in them to make them as strong as the shape shifter’s. They tried the serum on her first, but her body rejected it immediately.

She had learned her body was quick in healing any damage. Her gunshot wound should be healed by tomorrow morning. She yawns and snuggles deep under the covers. She finally felt safe and tired. She was so soundly asleep, that she never heard the light knocking on her door or when it open to see if she was awake.

The person who had been sent to deliver her food looked at the small girl curled up under the covers and could see she was sound asleep.
She wonders who she was and why she had a guard outside of her room. She backs slowly out of the room and looks at Jose.

“Who’s the girl?” Julie had the tray balance in her hand.

Jose looks at Julie and knew he wasn’t supposed to say who she was, but he knew Julie was going to be assigned to the girl.

“She’s going to be your new charge. April is going to want you to watch after her and help her.” He didn’t know if he should tell her who she really was. April had told him who she was and felt honor that they would trust someone like him to protect her. Not she would really need protection after all the stories he heard about her.

Julie makes a face “that doesn’t tell me who she is.”

Jose looks at her “All I can say, is she’s the most dangerous person in this Manor house right now.”

Julie watched Jose eyes and she spotted the truth in his eyes. Now her curious nature was wondering who she could be. She had seen their Alpha fight and his mate and she consider both as dangerous. How could someone so young and small be more dangerous than her leaders?

She heads back down to the kitchen with the tray still covered. Julie notices Marge looking at her as she enters the kitchen with the tray still covered.

“She was asleep and I didn’t want to disturb her. Ms. April said she might be asleep.” Julie sets the tray on the counter.

“Alright, put the food in containers and I’ll rewarm it later for her if she wakes up.” Marge pulls down a few containers to put the food in.

“Marge who is she? Cause Jose said she is the most dangerous person in this Manor house.” She removes a plate and carefully transplants the food from it into the container.

Marge sighs. She hadn’t been ready to tell Julie this, but felt she should know.

She looks at Julie “that young girl is the Keres. She’s going to be your new charge.”

Julie thought about that for a second. She knew the name Keres was Greek and it meant death spirit. She looks at Marge with her eyes wide “you don’t mean she is…”

“Yes! She is that person. Jamal brought her here a few hours ago. She surrendered to him and asked to be brought to our Alpha. As for why, I don’t know. However, it doesn’t matter. Lady April wants you to personally take care of her. She is mute, so you’re going to have to speak mind-to-mind with her, till she learns how to use sign language.” Marge was shock at first as well, when she learned who the girl was. She had thought she was another of the Prince’s conquest. When she learned, it was the Keres herself, she wonder why her Alpha let her stay here.

Marge saw Julie thinking about this matter. She picks up a tray and put it in her hands.

“Go serve our Alpha and his family.” She shoos Julie out of the kitchen.

April had been surprised when Julie came out of the kitchen to serve her and her family. She figured she would be upstairs with the girl, but after she asked her mentally what was going on, she understood. After dinner, she had checked on the girl and notice she was sound asleep. April figures this must be the first time; she has had a chance to rest peacefully.

After checking on the girl and telling Jose that he would be relieved by Adam around midnight. She heads to her suite to get some sleep as well. Tomorrow should prove to be interesting to say the least.

The morning light filters in through the window near the bed Agent 345 was sleeping in. She slowly opens her eyes and look around. Someone had been in earlier and left some clothes for her to wear. She slowly gets out of bed and takes the bandages off her leg. She notices the pink skin where her body was still healing the opening of the wound. She moves carefully to the bathroom and takes a nice hot shower and scabs herself with the scented shampoo and soap. She knew it would cling to her body, but she didn’t care. If she was going out on a mission, she would have just used the water to clean her body by itself.

After finishing her shower, she moves back into the bedroom and starts getting dress. Someone had left her everything she needed to wear a dress, which was fine. She would rather wear a dress, instead of pants and shirt. She slips the flats on her feet and went to the door to see if it was lock. As she turns the handle it opens for her. She steps out and she knew as she did, that there was a guard by her door. She looks up at him and wonders if he would understand her.

Adam looks down at this little girl before him. He couldn’t believe she was the feared Shadow, which everyone was concern about. He watched her as she stood next to him.

She looks at him and motions with her hand that she wanted food.

Adam watched as she brought her hand to her mouth like she was using a spoon and motion with it. He had been told she was mute.

“Are you trying to tell me you are hungry?”

“Yes! I was wondering where your kitchen was.” Agent 345 wasn’t startled like she had been yesterday when she heard April’s voice in her head.

“Lady April has instructed me to follow you, since you can’t speak. I’ll translate for you. Follow me.” He leads her down towards the dining room where everyone had gathered for breakfast.

The place was huge, compare to what she was used to. She walks with Adam, as he escorts her up to where Lady April was sitting. He pulls the chair out for her to sit and then pushes it back towards the table.

April looks at their young visitor “what would you like to eat this morning?”

“I don’t know. I was always given a protein shakes and a few bananas for breakfast.”

A smile forms on April’s face “Here, why don’t I ask Marge to make you some pancakes. I think you’ll enjoy them.” April concentrates and sends a mental request to their cook Marge.

Agent 345 looks around the table. Everyone seemed to be either waking up still or have been awake for a while yet. She picks up a glass of orange juice April had poured for her. Agent 345 picks the glass up and gives it a quick sniff, before drinking it. She had something like it back at the HSL compound before.

She sits there and watches everyone as they eat or drink their coffee or juice. She does notice occasionally, one or two of the people at the table would glance over towards. It makes her squirm some, when they glance her way.

April notices it “Is there something wrong?”

“No, not really it’s just that I’m not use to the attention, I’m getting. It feels strange to me and I don’t know how to handle it.” Agent 345 was feeling a little nervous.

“Would you rather eat in your room?” April was thinking it might help her.

“No, I’ll be okay.” Just as Agent 345 sent that thought to April. Marge comes walking in with a large plate of hot, streaming stack of pancakes.

“Here you go.” April puts a stack on Agent 345 plate.

Agent 345 looks at the stack of pancakes. She never had any and wonders how you’re supposed to eat them.

April pours some maple syrup over them and then cut them into small bite size piece for Agent 345.

“Go ahead and try them now.” April gives Agent 345 a smile.

Agent 345 picks her fork up and takes a bite. She loved the sugary taste of the maple syrup as it goes down her throat. She digs in and starts eating them like they were going out of style. April kept adding more to the girls’ plate, whenever her plate got low. She would add some more syrup. She had notice that Agent 345 was additive to the sweetness of the syrup. Agent 345 holds her hand up to let April know she was full. She sits back against the chair sighing. She had never eaten so much food at once.

April just smiles as she notices how content the girl was.

“You seem to have enjoyed the pancakes.”

“Yes, they were very good and I have never had syrup like that before. I was normally kept on a strict diet and wasn’t allowed to deviate from it. The head trainer that monitored me said my diet needed to be balance because how much energy I burn during my exercises.”
April thought about what Agent 345 just said. She wonders what the girl’s life was like every day.

“What was a normal day for you?”

“I was normally up by 0500hrs and did a twenty-mile jog., Then after that I would have hand-to-hand training for at least two hours., When I got back, I would be allowed to take a twenty minute breakfast break and go over what assignment I had that day. It was either spying on you guys or honing my skills against the ones we capture. My brother and sisters would have class afterwards. While they were in class, I would be taught some more in my martial arts or intense gymnastics training.

“What did you do with the ones you capture, before you came here?”

“I free the ones that were able to move on their own and the others I help load into a truck and sent them on their way. I would never do something to harm them, when I trained against them. My instructors got mad at me and said I shouldn’t care about your kind.”

“Why did you care so much?” April was watching Agent 345 as well as everyone else at the table.

Agent 345 takes a deep breath and tries to look for the words to explain her how she felt. Then an idea hits her. She would allow April to probe deeper into her.

Agent 345 drops all her shields and mental barriers and to let April probe deeper into her.

April felt Agent 345 open herself up to her. April reaches further into her mind and could feel that she didn’t have what it took to be mean or cruel in her nature. All she could feel was peacefulness and serenity in her. There were black spots on her soul and April knew it was hurting
Agent 345. She could feel how it clawed at her to go against her nature. She looks at the girl and then wraps her up in her arms and pulls her on to her lap.

Agent 345 didn’t know what to make of this, but something inside of her opened and tears started falling from her. She buries her head against April’s shoulder and sobs. She wants to scream, but nothing comes out as her hand glitches into a fist of frustration and just cries.
All the emotions she had buried deep inside of her came surging forward.

April just held Agent 345 against her body and rubbed her back as she cried against her. She could feel the lonely little girl at her core, which wanted so much to be held and loved by a mother who cared. She held Agent 345 against her protectively. She may have lost her other daughter, but she was not going to let anything happen to this poor girl any more.

Cain had come in quietly into the dining room and notice Agent 345 crying her head out against his sister-in-laws shoulder. He sends a mental message towards April to find out what was going on. He sits down as she explains to him mentally what had happened. She even shares what she has learned with him and a low growl rumbles in his chest. He now knew that it wasn’t Agent 345’s fault for her actions against his and other Packs and Pride’s. He’ll have to call an emergency meeting with the rest of the Alpha’s and share what he has learned about the HSL with them. The only two groups that weren’t affected by the HSL were the Hipamika pack and the Chattan pride. The leader of both those groups took care of their problems, before it became too much. It also helps that the surviving mates of the Hipamika pack former Alpha was a powerful witch. He knew she had a twin brother in the Chattan Pride, but nothing had been heard from him. Cain had heard a rumor that he had die awhile back. He’ll have to ask Neil about that when he calls him later today. He also needed to inform other Alpha’s of the updated listings of his pride membership. His territory was one of the biggest one’s around. All of Montana was his territory.

Territory wise it was like the others, but membership wise, it had the most people. The Chattan Pride was considered the smallest Pride, but they had the most powerful members among them. He knew Neil and his Queen were the only ones capable of handling the most powerful among their kind.

Cain smirks at how hard Neil must have keeping them in-line. He and Neil had been pride mates when they were younger and even then, he had a certain aura about him. Neil had married his cousin Clair. She was just like Neil; both had an air about them that made others around them give them respect. The difference between Neil’s pride and his own was that Neil took everyone into his pride. He was the only pride composed of different species of were-cats. Sure, he had a few among his pride, but Neil’s was composed of nothing, but different species.
No one species was big enough to claim the pride as theirs.

Cain looks back over towards April “Have you decided on a name you like to call her?”

“Yes! We both agree on the name of Amy Elizabeth Ale for her. We’ll keep her birthday as it is. That way it will be easier to remember for her.”

“Why is she in your lap?”

“She totally opened herself to my mental probes and it caused everything she had been holding back since she was little to surface. You wouldn’t believe what they put her through.” April shares a little bit of Amy’s memory with her alpha.

Cain couldn’t believe it. They started training her when she was just a toddler. He felt her isolation as they kept her separated from everyone. Even her instructors weren’t nice to her. All of them, except her third Martial Arts instructor. He was the only one to show her any kindness, until one day he didn’t show up.

Cain looks over towards Amy as she is held by April. He could now understand why she chooses to join his pride. It was the only kindness she had ever seen in her life. He could see that for someone who had never had any sense of life, would want what they had been denied. He gets up out of his chair and walks over towards her and places his hand on her shoulder.

“You’ll never be treated like that ever again Amy. You’ll know what it is to be loved and treated with kindness.” He gives her shoulder a little squeeze before heading back over towards his chair.

Amy watches him and April. She figures she must have shared her memories with him. She takes a deep breath and just lays there on April’s lap with her head resting on her shoulder. It was childish, but after letting April pass all her internal blocks and into why she did what she did and how her childhood was, it releases some of the emotions she had bottled up inside of her.

April tightens her hold on Amy and vows to protect Amy. She promises to show this girl what a family is about. After a little while, she motions for Amy to get off her lap and follow her towards her alpha’s office.

As the both walk in, Joyce was already in there, doing some paper work. She looks up as her sister, Amy and her husband walk in. Her husband motions for Amy and April to take a seat. He goes and stands near his wife.

Joyce looks at April “I’ve gone ahead and had the papers drawn up with Amy’s new name on it. She’s register as being born here. Which, she really was born here after all and isn’t a lie. I’ve also had Troy go through that information you gave us Amy.” Joyce looks over towards Amy.

“It would seem, to be that the Human Supreme League and the Hunter Organizations are both connected to each other. After what happened a couple of months ago with the Hunter organization area leader being arrested for murder and drug trafficking. They left most of their dirty work up to the HSL. If the leaders of the Hunter Organization had found out about you Amy, I doubt you would be here right now talking to us.”

Amy was confused, because she didn’t know why the Hunter Organization wouldn’t want her working for them. She personally met four of their district leaders when she was first put in the combat arena with six capture supers.

She sees if Joyce could receive her thoughts “Why wouldn’t the Hunter Organization want me to work for them? I met four of their district managers personally, on my first combat test. They had come to watch me fight six Were-wolves they had captured.”

Cain was surprise at this omission. “Do you remember what they looked like Amy?”

“Yes sir.” She closes her eyes and digs in her memory for the four she met and the six Were-wolves she fought. She brings the images to the surface and let’s April transmits the images to Cain and Joyce.

Joyce looks towards her husband and April “I know at least two of the wolves. They’re members of the Bloody Moon Claw Pack. Their mainly made-up of gator swamp hunters from Louisiana. They are a small group, maybe fifty member’s total. Their leader answers to Troy White. He is the Alpha of that region.”

“I don’t recall Troy ever mentioning, that he lost any members at any of the meetings.” Cain was wondering if he should investigate this matter a little closely.

Joyce looks at her husband and could tell he was thinking about something. She knew him and Troy went way back. They served in the army together and served over-seas together as well.

April looks towards Amy “How many times did the site you were operating out of test you?”

Amy thought about it for a minute “I was normally tested four times a year. They wanted to make sure each year that I was still operating at my peak condition. The rest of my team was only tested twice a year. They got shots three times a year.”

Amy knew what the shots were. They were the special combination of drugs used to boost her team mate’s physical bodies. She didn’t need them, because her body already operated at peak performance.

Cain just shakes his head. He knew the HSL and The Hunter’s experimented with different type of drugs and genetic manipulation to engineer some of their people to be able to fight his kind. The meeting with the Alpha’s was going to be a heated one when he shows the information Amy gave him. It might be best for him to keep her out of the reports for a while.

Cain looks towards his sister-in-law “So what are your plans for today?”

“I thought I would take Amy shopping today. It will be something new for her and let her observe how normal girls her age socializes with others.” April thought it might be nice for Amy to see how to be a normal teenage girl.

Amy looks over towards April and wonders if this would be wise. She had watched how girls her age had acted, when she came into their territory to scout out routes and their weak points. She directs her thoughts towards April.

“Mom, wouldn’t it be best if I showed you where your weaknesses are in your defenses and how you could improve them?”

“No young lady. You’re going to take the day and see what a young girl your age does and to get you some more clothes. You need a set of clothes, books and personal items that are yours.” April lets a smile appears on her face.

“But I already know how girls my age interacts with others. How they socialize and flirt and with the boys younger and older than them.” Amy figures it would be a waste of time for her to try and act normal.

“Amy, you need to learn how to be a young girl. You may know how girls your age socializes, but you have never done it yourself. Also, you need to learn how to relax more. Your stance is like that of a cat ready to pounce on something. You can see the military style training in your body language. To help undo what was taught to you, you’ll need to change some of your habits and unlearned what you have learned. Remember, you agree to follow my rules, when you accepted me as your mother. So, as your mother, we are going to go out and have a daughter, mother day.” April had made that last sentence an order.

Amy just looks at April and smiles.

Cain looks at both “Do I want to know what you two were talking about?”

“Not unless you want to go shopping with me, my daughter and your wife.” A teasing smile appears on her face. She knew Cain hated shopping.

“No thank you. You girls have fun.” Cain watches as all three women leave his office.

Amy held April’s hand as they walked towards the front door along with Joyce. They had three guards with them.

Amy looks at them and then to her mother “I guess people still don’t trust me.”

April just smirks “They aren’t for you dear, but for Joyce. The mate of the Pride never goes anywhere without a guard. Just as you will not be allowed to go anywhere without a guard either. I’m a member of the family and therefore important. Since you are my adopted daughter, you won’t be permitted to go anywhere without a guard. I know you can defend yourself, but it is better if you don’t reveal who you are too much my daughter. You are feared and wanted among my kind and if people knew who you were things could get complicated. Plus, I don’t want to hear about you being force to kill someone.”

“I don’t need to kill them mother. I do know ways of paralyzing them and making them regret messing with me. I dislike killing people.” Amy leans in close to April.

April gives her adopted daughter hand a little squeeze “I know sweetie. I felt it inside of you. I know how much you hate it.”
Joyce, April and Amy spend the day shopping and bonding. By the time, they got back to the Manor house, Amy was happy and felt like a normal teenage girl. They went shopping, movies and beauty parlor. The beauty parlor was the scariest part for Amy, but Joyce and April held her hand and helped her deal with it. She had her ears pierce and her hair trimmed and shaped for her.

April had gotten Amy a nice short hair style. Something she could take care of herself with very little effort. Her hair felt extremely soft to the touch. The beautician commented about it to Joyce and April. She said that she had never felt hair so naturally soft before. April and Amy head towards the main dinner room and take their place at the table. Marge had cooked up a Mexican style dinner tonight. Amy was amazed, because she had never had anything like it before.

April shows Amy how to make the tacos and burritos. Troy challenges her to try some extremely hot peppers. She eats them with no problem. It burned her slightly, but it wasn’t as bad as Troy said they would be.

Troy couldn’t believe it. He had watched Amy eat as many as he did and wasn’t even fazed by the hot peppers.
Amy looks towards April while they were still sitting at the table “Mother, would it be okay for me to train for awhile?”

“Okay, but only for a short time sweetie.” April didn’t mind her adopted daughter to work out for awhile, since she knew it was part of her routine.

Amy excuses herself from the dinner table and is escorted down to the training room. One of the trainers down stairs shows her where she can change into an exercise suit. The suit they have for her is leotard style suit. Amy does a few stretches and goes through a few warm-up exercises to loosen her muscles up. She starts off easy and then makes them a little harder each time.

Some of the men that had family killed by members of her unit were down there and there wasn’t anyone watching over her. They approach Amy and surround her.

“We know who you are. We also know what you use to do. You and your kind killed some friends of mine. You have a lot of balls coming here and asking our leader to take you in for what you did. I think you should die for what you did to my friends.” With that he strikes out at her and hits her right in her face, breaking her nose.

Amy doesn’t do anything to stop him. She doesn’t protect herself in any way as she lets the six guys that surrounded her punch, kick, claw and bite on her. She lets them, because she feels that she deserves it. She was tired of fighting and just wanted a normal life. She hears three of her ribs crack as someone kicks her extremely hard in her chest. She tries to scream out in pain, but nothing comes out of her mouth. She feels another kick as it strikes her right in her private area and she feels something inside of her rupture. She felt something cut across her throat and then wetness. Amy screams out mentally for her adopted mother, before she passes out.

Amy slowly opens her eyes and looks around at her surroundings. She felt someone holding her hand and notice she was back in her bedroom with her adopted mother holding her hand. Every inch of her body was bandaged up. Her throat was dry and sore. She squeezes her adopted mother’s hand.

April wakes up when she feels Amy squeeze her hand.

“Oh, thank god. I thought I was going to lose you.” April kisses her daughter on her forehead.

“I’m sorry mom.” Amy felt tears sliding down her cheek.

“I should have sent a guard down there with you. Why didn’t you defend yourself sweetie?” April knew Amy could defend herself easily.

“Because if I defended myself; more people would have gotten involved. They were looking to avenge their friends and it fed their anger towards me. I figure it would have been better to not do anything, plus I felt like I deserve what they were giving me. It was because of me that their friends and family were killed by members of my group.”

“Sweetie, you don’t deserve what you got. If you did, do you think Cain would allow me to adopt you? You are not responsible for what you did when you were with the HSL. You were just following orders.” April knew Amy felt bad about all the terrible things she did, but she didn’t deserve to die.

Amy looks at her mother and squeezes her hand. She lets her mother know how much feels about her through their mental link.

April could feel Amy’s love for her and watches as her daughter drifts off to sleep again. She stays by her bed holding her hand. She felt the sorrow and guilt Amy held inside of her, but hopefully she’ll managed to convince Amy to let go of her guilt.

April watches as some of the cuts and claws marks Amy has on her body start healing itself, leaving no scars behind.

April looks up as Cain comes walking in.

Cain had heard about what had happen to Amy down in the gym. He had punished the ones responsible for nearly killing her. The thing that bothers him the most was that he knew she could have wiped the floor with all of them, but didn’t do anything to protect herself.

“How is she doing?” Cain looks at Amy’s sleeping form as he comes walking in.

“She’s healing at an amazing rate. I would guess that by noon tomorrow, she should be completely healed.” April was impressed with her adopted daughters healing.

Cain stands next to the bed and just looks at Amy as she slept.

He looks towards April “did she tell you why she didn’t defend herself?”

“Yes, but I don’t agree with her reasoning. She feels that she deserves what they did to her, for the things the HSL made her do.” April still felt, that it wasn’t her fault. When she first realized who the girl was yes, she was mad and angry, but when she went inside Amy’s head and saw her soul, she realized this poor girl wasn’t a killer at heart and what the HSL was making her do, was slowly eating at her soul.

“I agree with you. It wasn’t her fault. She was just doing what they told her to do and she knew no better. It wasn’t till now that she realized how much she has been lied too.” Cain kept his eyes on Amy and couldn’t believe how young she looked.

“I wonder how or why they engineer her. You would think with their hated towards the supernatural. They would have gone down a different path.” Cain could see how fast a claw mark on Amy’s body was healing. He watches as her skin closes the cut and leaves no seam behind.
The red mark it left slowly fades away.

“I can’t believe she heals so fast.” Cain had never seen anything so fast before.

“I’ve always healed fast, but it tires me out.” Amy sits up and looks towards Cain.

“I thought you were asleep, sweetie.” Amy looks towards her daughter.

“I was till, you and Uncle Cain started talking mom. Even when I am asleep, I hear everything. It is rare when I fall into a total sleep.” Amy yawns. Her body was taking a lot of energy to heal her wounds.

April walks over to the bed and sits next to Amy. She gathers her up in her arms and cuddle her next to her.

“You go to sleep and let yourself heal.” She places a kiss on her Adopted daughter’s cheek.

Amy snuggles up to her adopted mother’s shoulder and just drifts off into a deep sleep. She felt safe in April’s arms and could allow herself to drift totally into a deep sleep.

April holds her daughter and wonders why the HSL created such an innocent person and tried to turn her into something she wasn’t. Amy doesn’t wake and stays snuggle up against April’s shoulder.

April continues to hold Amy as she slept. She doesn’t think she could even slip away from her if she wanted too. April listens to Amy’s heart rate as she slept. She could tell that when Amy is in a deep sleep, her heart slows down to the point you would think she was dead. She could even feel her skin turning cold as she watched her wounds seal themselves. If she hadn’t been holding her, she would think Amy was dead. Her breathing was almost nonexistent. She carefully stands up and walks over and lay Amy down on her bed and tucked her blanket around her. She places a kiss on her forehead.

“Sleep tight my little kitten.” April slowly walks out of Amy’s bedroom and down to the kitchen. She was hungry and concern about Amy.

“How is she doing April?” Joyce was in the kitchen talking about what they were going to fix for dinner tomorrow night, since they were going to have guest with Marge.

“She’s finally asleep. She relaxed enough to go into what she calls a deep sleep. Your husband and I woke her up with our talking. It wasn’t till he left and I held her for a while that she finally slipped into a sleep so deep that you would think she was dead.” April grabs a glass and fills it with the sweet ice tea Marge keeps in the refrigerator.

“Maybe we should keep a guard with her for now on.” Joyce knew April would say yes right away.

“I would love to have a guard on her, but I don’t think she would approve of it. She’s more than capable of defending herself.” April would feel better if someone did guard her.

“I don’t think she is going to do that. She still feels guilty about what she did to us and she wants to just be a normal girl.” Cain comes walking into the kitchen. He heard his wife and sister-in-law talking about Amy.

“Well, if she won’t fight to defend herself. Then we’ll need to send one of her guards with her to protect her then.” Cain wasn’t going to let anything happen to his new niece any more.

“Then I just guess either Adam or Jose is going to have to protect her from now on, till she stops feeling guilty about what the HSL made her do.” Joyce looks towards her sister.

“You know, Jamal doesn’t trust her all the way and a lot of his troops don’t trust her either. Jamal knows it wasn’t her fault for what she was made to do, but he still thinks she could have stopped herself earlier.” Cain had spoken with his son about Amy to see how he felt about her.

“Is he willing to at least associate with her some?” April was concern about her nephew.

“He said, he’ll be willing to at least trust her for now. He knows she is trying to make good for everything she did.” Cain was at least able to convince his son to at least give her a chance.

“At least that’s a start.” April grabs a brownie that Marge had made and eats it.

“What has the council said about what Amy told us and about her?” Joyce looks at her husband for an answer.

“The head Were-Wolf council member wants to meet her. He said that he had heard about experiments being done to build a better weapon to use against us, but he had no idea that the HSL would take this route and genetically engineer someone to fight against us or make a serum that turns ordinary humans into super soldiers. I told him you adopted Amy, April and have taken her under your wing as your pup. He doesn’t have a problem with that, but he would like reports about her activities. Troy wants to know what she is capable of, since he has never fought against her.” Cain thought it might be a good idea to let Troy see why she lives up to her name.

“I don’t have a problem with it, but getting Amy to fight back might be a little tough. I think if we tell her it’s a sparring match she might agree to do it. I’ll talk with her and see if she will agree. Has any word come back on her blood work yet?” April had been wondering what type of blood or genetics the HSL had used in Amy’s genetic make-up.

“None yet, Dr. Smith just got the sample this morning. She said she’ll call us and tell us what she finds.” Cain had spoken to her this afternoon before dinner and the situation with Amy.

“Okay, I’ll check on Amy tomorrow morning and see how she is healing.” April finishes off the brownie she had grabbed.

“Go to bed April, we’ll check on Amy on are way to bed.” Joyce looks at her sister.

“No need sis. She is totally out of it. I can feel her from here and she is sawing some serious zzzz’s right now.” April could feel her adopted as she slept and knew nothing was going to wake her up.

“I thought she was always partially aware when she was asleep.” Joyce looks towards her sister and husband.

“When Amy is in a total deep sleep, all her energies are being used to force her to heal faster. Her whole entire body slips into a reduce state and puts her under so deep that I don’t think anything will wake her.” April remembered feeling how low her heart beat was and how shallow her breathing was.

“Well, that would explain why she was so valuable to the HSL. I don’t think there is any Were’s in any group that could heal as fast as she can. I don’t even think vampires can do that.” Joyce was sure that was unique to Amy.

Joyce had study most other of the other supernatural creatures around the world. She had never encountered any other race with abilities like that, unless you included the Gods of legend. Joyce looks at her sister.

“April, did Amy tell you where they got her genetic material to make her from?” Joyce was thinking that maybe Amy might have a lost race genetic material inside of her.

“If I remember right from her memories. It came from area 51 and from a frozen being they found at the South Pole frozen.” April recalls the memories Amy shared with her.

“She gave you an USB drive that has all of the HSL secrets on it. Have you looked at it yet Cain?” April looks towards her brother-in-law.

“Not yet, I think I’ll look at it tomorrow morning and see what I can learn about her.” Cain figures it should take him a good part of the morning.

“She is such a sweet girl, but once our people find out who she is there’s going to be those that want to challenge her.” Joyce knew that could be a potential problem.

“It’s up to her if she wishes to accept the challenge. I think I better talk with her as well about that. Amy could win one or two challenges against her. If people see her and Troy spars that might eliminate any challenges towards her.” April knew her adopted daughter could do it.

“You talk with Amy about sparring with Troy. I think that might be the best bet right there. Once people see her stand her ground with Troy, they will back off.” Cain knew Troy would love to spar with Amy, just to learn what she knew.

“I’ll make sure I do. Now, if you’ll excuse me, I hear my bed calling me.” April hugs her sister and gives Cain a peck on the cheek before heading to bed. She stops to check in on Amy and notice she was still asleep.

“Sleep tight, sweetie.” April closes Amy’s bedroom door quietly and head into her own bedroom.

Amy felt groggy and weak as a kitten when she got out of bed the next morning. Every part of her body felt stiff and sore as she climbed down from her bed. She shivers as the cold air in her room glided against her warm body. It woke her up a little bit more, but still felt weak and tired. Amy knew she needed food to replenish what her body had used up healing her last night. She slips on her slippers and opens the door to her room and walk out into the hallway.

Jose had been requested to watch over Amy as she slept. He had heard what happened last night after dinner to her and wonder why she didn’t fight back. He has personally seen what she is capable of and knew for a fact, that she could have wiped the floor against those that hurt her. He heard her bedroom door open as he closed the newspaper he had been reading. He stands up out his chair as he watches Amy walk out of her bedroom. He couldn’t believe how tired and pale she looked. She didn’t have her normal color about her.

“How are you feeling kiddo?” Jose stands up as he she comes walking out.

Amy looks at him “tired and sore” as she projects her thoughts to him.

Ever since April spoke to her mentally, she learned she could also do it on her own. She didn’t need her adopted mother’s help to translate for her.

Jose felt and heard Amy’s mental voice in his head. It didn’t bother him. His sister could do the same thing.

“Then you must be extremely hungry. Come on let’s get you to the dining room.” He leads the way down to the dining hall.

Amy follows behind him as he leads her to the dining hall. When she walks in, she notices her adopted mother wasn’t there.

She looks up at Jose “Where is Lady April?”

Jose felt Amy’s thoughts again. He looks down at her.

“She’s still in bed. If you want me too, I can go and wake her for you.” Jose knew April wouldn’t mind being woken-up if it concerned Amy.

Amy let’s her thoughts reach out to her adopted mother. She felt her adopted mother’s mind when she lightly touched her mind. April was still asleep, because she had stayed up late worrying about her.

A warm feeling crept over Amy. No one has ever worried about her or showed as much concern about her welfare like April was showing to her. She could feel that it was a motherly instinct that propels April to be concern about Amy.

Cain comes walking into the dining hall and saw Jose and Amy standing still. He could see that Amy was thinking about something and Jose was watching her. He also notices that Amy wasn’t looking to good this morning either.

Tears escape Amy’s eyes and flowed down her cheek. She had never felt that anyone would care for her like April does. She wipes the tears away. She couldn’t show weakness.

Amy felt strong arms wrapped around her and lift her up off her feet. She knew right away that they belonged to Cain. She turns around in his arms and buries her face against him and cry. The barriers she had put up a long time ago busted wide open and the tears just came pouring out of her.

Jose watched as Cain held Amy. He had watched Cain as he walked up slowly behind Amy. He could tell his Alpha was concerned about her, because even he noticed the tears sliding down her cheek. He watches as Amy buries her face against his alpha’s chest and cries. He had watched as Amy wrapped her arms around his alpha’s huge chest.

“Go and get something to eat Jose.” Cain looks at Jose as he held Amy in his arms. He couldn’t believe how light she weighted.

“Yes alpha.” Jose walks off to get some food to eat. He takes one last look at Amy as she is held against Cain’s body.

Cain carries Amy up to his study. He could feel the poor girl’s emotions right now. He had felt the barriers she had inside her mind burst wide open. Cain tries to help Amy cope with her emotions that were flowing out. He just holds her as he hears April’s footsteps coming towards his study.

April had woken-up and went to check on Amy, when she notices that Jose was gone. She had scanned the dining hall and discovered that Cain had her adopted daughter up in his study. The two of them had talked mentally about what was happening to Amy. Cain had informed his sister-in-law that Amy’s emotions were over whelming her. He told her what had happen and figured he might be able to help her.

Amy keeps her face against Cain’s shoulder. She was feeling every emotion she had held back when she worked for the HSL. Everything she had to hide from them, because of how she felt about what they had been doing to her.

April walks in and notices Cain holding her adopted daughter. She could feel how her emotions were washing over her.

Amy felt her mother’s mental touch on her mind. She tries to stop crying, but her emotions just wouldn’t stop.

Cain looks down at Amy “I’m going to give you to your mother Amy. She can help you more than I can with your emotions.”

Cain hands Amy over to April. He wishes he could help her more, but his talents didn’t lay in that department. April’s did and so did his wife’s talents.

April takes her crying daughter from Cain and holds her tight to her. She could feel the poor girl’s turmoil as she held her against her body.

She tries purring to sooth her as well as rubbing her back. She could feel Amy relax some, but kept on crying. April touches her adopted daughters mind and tries to sooth the emotions as they slowly slowed down inside her mind. She couldn’t stop Amy’s emotions from coming.
Amy could do that herself, but they weren’t going to be closed off any more.

“Everything is going to be better sweetie. You’ll never have to lock away how you feel any more.” April mentally tries soothing Amy with her love and what Amy means to her.

Amy slowly starts to calm down and after a while falls asleep against her adopted mothers shoulder. She was so emotionally and physically tired. That’s he couldn’t keep her eyes open any more.

April felt her adopted daughter fall sleep against her shoulder. She felt relieve that she had managed to calm Amy down and mad at what the HSL had done to her to make a weapon out of her. She hopes the Alpha’s of every Were group can come up with something to punish them for their crimes.

April carries Amy back to her bedroom and lay her down to sleep some in her bed. Not the bed in Amy’s own room, but in her bed. Amy could smell her scent and still feel like she was with her. April tucks her in and places a kiss on her forehead, as she backs quietly out of her bedroom. Afterwards April heads back downstairs to the dining hall. Her stomach was growling. As she walks in, she notices her sister and Cain at the table eating and talking. Marge and her staff have already placed her plate on the table, loaded with her favorite breakfast items.

Cain watches as his sister-in-law sits down next to his wife. April and his wife were extremely close to one another. He and she were close as well. They had gone to the same school and grew up together. His wife had been in a boarding school over in Europe, but when she came home for the holidays and summer vocation, they had met and it was love at first site. His beast knew right away who his mate was.

“How is Amy, April?” Cain takes a bite of his steak.

“She finally cried herself to sleep. I peeked at her memories that she has been holding back. You wouldn’t believe all the things they wouldn’t allow her to do. She was treated like a weapon, never like a child. No affection, no one there when she hurt herself to comfort her, nothing. She crazed this affection, but no one would give it to her. Even the room she had been kept in was kept free of anything that would show any kindness or affection.” April takes a bite of her steak as well. Marge had brought her a plate of steak, eggs and hash browns for breakfast.

“The HSL call us monster, but they take an innocent girl and turn her into a weapon and treat her like a monster.” Joyce couldn’t understand these humans. Why would anyone do something like that?

“I know. I have a feeling that it’s going to take me a few months to undo years of neglect they did to Amy.” April felt sorry for her adopted daughter.

“I’ve managed to talk with the rest of the Alpha’s and share the information Amy gave us. Each pride or packs are sending over two enforcers from their group to form a task group. I would like Amy to work with them. She’s a skilled fighter and knows how they fight. She can past that knowledge on to them.” Cain figures she was the best candidate for this.

“I think it’s too soon to ask her to do that Cain. On top of that, she’s going to need someone to communicate for her as well,” April didn’t want to push her daughter so soon.

“I’m assigning Troy to be her voice. He’s wanted to know how she manages to do all she does. I figure he would be able to communicate what she wants them to do. She can give him the information to look for and he can make them adjust their stance.”

“I still think it’s too soon. She may not want to fight.” April didn’t want to push her daughter.

Amy comes walking into the dining hall still dress in her night clothes and walks over to April and climb on to her lap. She was too big to be treated like a baby, but she wanted her mother’s support right now.

April looks at her daughter as she held her in arms and on her lap.

“You were asleep, sweetie. What are you doing up?” April wonders what woke her daughter.

“Food, plus I could hear Uncle Cain even when I was asleep.” Amy was resting her head against her mother’s shoulder.

April looks toward Cain “you woke her with your thoughts broadcasting.”

Cain looks at Amy and couldn’t believe she was picking up his thoughts. He made sure he wasn’t broadcasting what he was thinking.

Cain looks over towards Amy” would you teach a handful of our people your style of fighting and let Troy work with you?”

“Yes” Amy figures she wouldn’t mind teaching her pride how to fight the HSL. Her fighting style was unique and most of the HSL didn’t know it. She had been taught a lot of different styles of fighting throughout the years.

“You know you don’t have to do this.” April looks down at her daughter.

“I know mom. I don’t mind, but the ones Uncle ask me to train might resent me teaching them.” Amy’s tummy rumbles after speaking to her mother.

“Here sweetie. Why don’t you eat some of my breakfast?” April picks up her fork with some of her breakfast on it and feed it to Amy.

Amy eats a good portion of April’s breakfast. Her body was craving the calories to replenish what she has lost due to her healing. As she ate, her body started to get its normal coloring back and her energy levels were returning to what they normally were.

Cain had to scoop more food onto April’s plate since her lap was full of Amy sitting on her lap.

April pulls the chair out next to her “over you go sweetie.”

Amy moves over to the other chair and continues eating breakfast with her Uncle, Aunt and mother. She stops after a third filling of her plate and sit back against the seat with a full belly and her body fully energized and her color back.

“I think she’s full.” Cain looks over towards Amy and notice how happy she looks.

“Amy, do you know why the HSL would create someone like you?”

“Yes, they knew normal humans can’t compete against the supernatural. They wanted a solider that could be a match against the supernatural. So, I was created. They tried to make another like me, but the genetic material they used became contaminated. So, I was the only one to made successfully.”

“Do you know who sponsor your creation?” Cain was curious.

“No sir.” Amy didn’t have access to that information.

He just smiles at her “so? Do you think you can take on Troy later?”

Amy looks over towards him “if he can deal with losing against me. I’ll try to make it look good.”

“Them fighting words, kids.” Troy just looks at Amy with a challenge in his eyes.

Amy just smiles at him.

“We can go after breakfast if you would like for us too, Uncle.” Amy was getting use to be able to speak mentally. She wishes she knew she could do this when she was with the HSL.

Amy had gone back to her room and changed her clothes into her uniform she had worn here to the house. The damage that had been done to it had been repaired. She looks at herself in the full-length mirror. She was hoping that she would never have to put this thing on ever again. She picks up her Sai’s and examine them. They had been made of the toughest metals and forged by a master weapon maker.

Her sai were made just for her. Amy does a few warm-up exercises in her bedroom before walking down to the training area. She shows no emotion on her face as she walks towards the challenge circle. She waits for Troy to show-up and make the announcement for any one that wishes to challenge her.

Troy shows up at the challenge ring and notice Amy already there dressed in the clothes she uses to wear when her team intruded on their area. Troy turns around and in a powerful strong voice.

“ANYONE WHO WANTS TO CHALLENGE THE KERES MAY DO SO WITHOUT REPERCUSSION FROM THE ALPHA!”

Seven guys come walking over to the challenge circle. All of them were looking at the Keres as she stood in the middle of the circle. Her
Sai’s were holster on her side.

“What are the rules? Are we allowed to attack her as one or do we have to wait?” The leader of the seven was directing his questions to Troy, since he was second in charge.

“You may attack her as an individual combatant and prove yourself that way or as group if you think you’re not man enough to fight her by yourself.” Troy wanted to see if he was going to take the bait.

“I can take her by myself.” He walks into the challenge ring and changes into his hybrid form.
Amy just watches him as he paces around her looking for the right time to strike at her. She doesn’t move or twitch any as she waits for him to attack.

Samuel paces around the Keres as she stands waiting for him. He hasn’t turned her head or her body when he goes to strike her from behind with his claws.

Amy ducks and spins around in place sweeping his legs out from under him. Amy then strikes him three time in rapid session.
Samuel couldn’t believe what just happened to him. One moment he was striking the Keres and the next thing he knew he was lying on his back unable to move at all. He looks up and notice a Sai pointed at his throat.

“I yield.” Samuel didn’t know how she did it, but she beat him in no time flat.

Troy had watched the fight along with the others and couldn’t believe how fast Amy had moved. He had watched as Amy hit three different nerve clusters on his body and paralyzed him. Her last move had been for her pointing her sai at his throat. If this had been a real fight, she could had killed him and moved onto another target. He was going to enjoy fighting her.

The other six had seen how fast the Keres had taken down their packmate. They all charged into the challenge ring and surrounded her.
Amy waits patiently for them to make their move. Two moves at once from opposite directions of her. Amy closes her eyes and just as they get within reach of her. She ducks and spins around and hit the same nerve clusters in the same place on each one’s leg, paralyzing that leg.

The rest of the men move and try to overwhelm her. She ducks and bobs from every blow directed towards her. Where she can, she strikes a nerve cluster and paralyzes that part of their body. They try to keep her cluster in between all of them not giving her a chance to move, but she manages to move in such a small space and hits them in different nerve clusters.

Amy didn’t want to hurt them, but she figures she needs to show she can do more than paralyze them. She kicks, breaks and stabs with her hands at valuable parts on their bodies. She moves with the grace of a well-trained ballerina and with the speed of a large cat. By the time she is done, all six were laying at her feet moaning and groaning.

Amy turns and looks at Troy and motions for him to attack her.

“If you want to darling.” He changes into his hybrid form and circles her. He knew she watched the body movements and moves silently.

He lunges at her and automatically follow up with his other arm, but misses her twice as she blocks his moves. He keeps pressing his attacks not giving her time to react. He manages to push her back some, but doesn’t expect or notice as her fist comes from nowhere and strikes him. She not only strikes him once, but several times in different parts of his body. The strength behind her punches weren’t impressive, but they did hurt him. He could feel the pain from those punches all the way through to his bones.

“Impressive Amy. Did they teach you that?”

Amy nods her yes to his question. Her mind was on the fight and she was blocking all thoughts directed towards her. She felt Troy trying to distract her by talking to her mentally. She smiles and moves in with an open palm strike and then does a roundhouse kick to his head.

Troy feels the air knocked out of his body as Amy hits him square in his chest with an open palm strike and felt her foot connect with the side of his head. First, he can’t breathe with the air being knocked out of his chest from the palm strike and the next thing he notices is blackness overcoming his from the kick to his head. He drops to the floor of the ring unconscious.

Amy looks up and notice that almost the whole pack was here watching her. She notices her Uncle clapping his hands and her mother and aunt smiling proudly at her. Amy walks over towards Uncle and kneels in front of him.

“Raise Amy, you have proven yourself to everyone. I don’t think anyone is ever going to challenge you again.” Amy stands up and looks at everyone present.

Cain looks at his people “is there anyone else who wishes to challenge The Keres?”

He looks around at everyone one present.

“This is your last chance to challenge her. She has beaten eight of our people already, including my second. After this day there will be no more challenge against her understood? Settle whatever grieves with her here and now or let them go. She never asked to become The Keres and she has never wanted to kill. She was force to do that by those that created her.” Cain observe everyone listening to him and notice that no one was going to challenge Amy.

“Alright, from this day forth The Keres is no more. Her name is Amy and is part of my family. You will address her like you would Lady April and Alpha Joyce.”

“What is her position in the pack Alpha?” Troy's first in command of pack security looks at Cain.

“She will be mine and my mate’s personal assistant from this day forth. If she tells you to do something, you do it. She has our authority behind her.”

“Yes Alpha.”

Darren wanted to make everyone understand that Amy couldn’t be order around by them and that she was to be obey. Lady April has already approached him and Jose to be her personal body guards, not that she needed them. He had to admit she was a pretty good fighter and hope she can learn some of her fighting style.

Amy walks over to where Troy is and screams his name to wake-up in his head.

Troy opens his eyes instantly. He looks up at Amy a she leans over him.

“Did you have a good nap?” She sends to him mentally.

He just growls at her and gives her the evil eye.

Amy just smiles and helps him up off the floor.

“Here, stand still.” She walks behind him and runs her fingers down his back till she gets to a certain spot and lightly tap it.

“You should be feeling better quicker now. That strike I did against your chest messed up those nerves.” Amy wanted to make sure there was no permanent damage to Troy.

“I want to learn everything you know how to do. No one had ever been able to drop me or any Were as fast as you did.” Troy stands up and brushes himself off.

Cain walks over followed by April and Joyce “did she hurt you?”

“No, but she did damage my ego some.” Troy was looking at Amy and had a smile on his face.

“I told her I want to know everything she knows. I have never had anyone drop me like she did. Even her punches hurt. The pain wasn’t where she hit, but traveled down to my bones.”

“She did a chi attack against you?” April looks at her daughter.

Amy nods her head yes to her mother.

“Oh, you are sneaky.” April smiles at her daughter.

“I just used what I was taught mother.” Amy stood close to her.

Troy looked around as the packs members started to leave the gym and challenge arena.

“I think she made her point with taking me down and those other yahoo’s.” Troy watches as the seven Amy fought were leaving and rubbing the spots she had hit them.

“Let’s wait till everyone leaves and before you start training me.”

“Okay.” Amy had been watching Troy’s lips while he talked to her.

She didn’t always need to hear what someone was saying if she could see their lips.

Amy was dress for training today with Troy. They had a private gym to themselves to train. The two of them have been at it since five in the morning. Amy had gotten up early and went for a twenty-mile jog to get her body back in condition. Since she has been here. She hasn’t done any training and her body was letting her know it. Her two body guards where huffing and puffing by the time they got back. In their human forms, they weren’t used to the type of jogging she was used to.

She gave them a break while she changed out of her jogging clothes and into a skin-tight workout suit that didn’t restrict her movements.
She watched Troy spar against his second and then corrected him the only way she knew how, which was with hard discipline. She whacked him hard when he did a move that wasn’t right or to her satisfaction. She knew no other way to train, except the way she was taught.

Troy could understand why Amy was being so strict in the way she was training them. It must have been the way she trained. That was why she never made mistakes in what she did. Her moves were perfect and that made them think she was older and more capable then she appeared. Troy felt sorry for his second. She had been extremely hard on him, but Troy had talked with him and explained why she was hard. He felt sorry for her body guards, because they were next after them.

He would have to show Army a better way of teaching people. However, right now they could survive her style of training.
Amy put all her concentration into training Troy and Darren she improved their moves and showed them the counter moves to their moves and how she did it. She only showed them once, maybe twice if she moved to fast for them.

By the time Troy and Darren was done. They had bruises from their head all the way to their toes. Amy had been merciless with them and they knew they had to go through this again tomorrow as well. Amy stood and watched as the duo walked/limped out of the training gym. She puts her training stick up on the wall and grab her water bottle and walk out of the gym and upstairs to the dining hall for dinner. They had taken only a fifteen-minute break for lunch. That was all she allowed them to take.

April watches as her daughter comes over and sits next to her. She has been learning sign language and has been requesting that Amy used it as well.

“How was your lesson?”

“It was fine mother. Troy and Darren are good students and didn’t complain to much as I wracked them hard to remind them to do a move right. I wouldn’t want to be them right now, because they are covered in bruises from their head to their toes. I remember being trained like that.”

“Is that how they trained you? By using extreme force on you?”

“Yes ma’am. Everything I learned was by extreme measures. Even learning to fight a Were. They would get a were all wired up and forced them to come at me. It was life or death every time. No instructor was permitted to show me mercy or kindness. It was all or my death. I did get injured several times, but with my ability to heal. It was nothing for me to get up the next day and be put into the same situation again.
The more I experienced, the better I got.”

Amy fills her plate from the food being passed around the table. There was plenty, so she never needed to worry about not having something. Tonight, she had a little bit of wine with her supper. April had approved it.

When desert came around she wanted some, but her stomach was full. So, the kitchen staff said they would save her a slice. She had watched as Troy and Darren came limping in and all beaten-up. Everyone at the table turned and looked at her. Amy just shrugged her shoulders and leaned against her mother.

“You know, everyone thinks you did it on purpose.”

“I guess I sort of did mother. It was the way I was trained to fight.” Amy looks up at her mother.

“I know and Troy said he’ll teach you a new way of teaching after you finish theirs, that’s if they survive you.”

April had a playful smile on her face as she looked down at her daughter.

Amy returns the smile and hug her mother. There were times she did act as a baby and not as a teenager should around her mother. She had found out that her Uncle Cain, her Aunt Joyce and her mother didn’t mind if she did. If was her way of healing and having some sort of her missing childhood back.

She just stays seated next to her mother listening to everyone as they talked. This was something she has come to enjoy. The union of everyone here. It was like where she came from where her teammates were kept separate from her. Plus, they weren’t allowed to talk about anything except training and the occasional mission.

Amy signs to April “Mom, I’m going outside and sit on the swing seat for a while.”

“Okay dear.” April replies in sign.

Amy gets up and walks outside and over to the seat swing and just watches the stars from the porch.

SHL Headquarters:
Agent Williams wasn’t happy about losing one of their most prized weapons to the other side. He had gather everyone that was still a lived and wanted answer about how this happened. He looks first at the Doctors that made her night time learning disk.

“How did Agent 345 manage to overcome the subliminal messages you have been implanting into her mind? You said it would be impossible for her to ever turn against us?”

“We don’t know. The messages have been working fine since she was born. Even inside the chamber we created her in we feed her those messages. There’s no reason she should had been able to overcome that process.” Chief Scientist Clarkson was sure of it.

“Well, she overcame your programming. Explain that to me? How is it possible?” Agent Williams wanted facts, not guess or unsure answers.

“Do we know what lead up to her defeating and going to the other side?”

Special Agent Brooks had just walked in when he asked that question.

“We don’t. All security records for that base have been completely erase or taken. She knew what she was doing when she left that base. The only reason we know she is still alive is because one of the surveillance drones spotted her in the market with known hostiles with her.”

“Why did she surrender to them and why are they treating her like one of them?”

“I can answer that question Agent Williams and I warned you this could happen with her as she was exposed to them. You treated her like a weapon and not like a human being. You made her question herself and didn’t realize that she was craving affection from another human being. We warned you that her conditioning could take her to this state one day. You’re lucky she didn’t snap to the point where she came after the whole organization. She’s trained better than anyone currently employed by us.”

Dr. Fulbright knew this day would come one day.

“Didn’t we build a fail safe in her?”

“No, you didn’t want one because what if our enemy got a hold of her and scan her with their mental or magical abilities and used it against her. You said you didn’t want to take a chance on that.”

Dr. Linkster was one of the doctors that helped engineer her.

“So, what options do we have in bring her back to us or destroying her?”

Special Agent Brooks was looking at everyone that had helped create agent 345.

“Well, we could do a drone attack or sniper attack against her, but it might not work. She seems to be able to detect snipers and drones. Like some sort of combat awareness. There’s the possibility of using the HUNTER. He was the one person that could hold his own against her when we hired him to train her. His training was brutal, but they did work in training her.” Dr. Kinsley knew the HUNTER was the one person that could deal with her, but if came down to a straight fight with her. She would win. He used traps and drones against his prey.

“Then get in touch with him and offer him twice his normal rate. I want her dead before she trains any of them or expose any more of our weaknesses.”

Agent Williams wasn’t happy and neither was Special Agent Brooks.

“Sir, you have a phone call on your private line.”

“Thank you, Jones.”

“Hello, what can I do for you?”

“Mr. Hunter, this is Mr. Harris with the HSL. I would like to hire you to eliminate a problem of ours.”

“Who might your problem be Mr. Harris?”

“Agent 345 has switched side and joined our enemies. We need for you to put her down.”

“So, your favorite pet has bitten your hand and you want it put down?”

“Yes.”

“It’s going to cost you.”

“We’re willing to pay. How much?”

“Two million and all the data you have on this girl. I want to know everything there is about her. All her training and weaknesses she has. I want to know her current location as well. I warned you that this could happen, but you didn’t believe my warning.”

“You’ll have the information by the end of the day.”

“Good, I also want half the money up front as well. The rest upon the completion of this matter.”

“Done. Hunter, you have two days to complete this. She’s with our enemy and who knows what information she has revealed to them.”

“You should had thought about that before you created her.”

Hunter hangs up and looks towards his butler.

“Have the jet ready and loaded to go.”

“Right away sir.”

The butler turns and leaves Hunter’s office.

“I knew they wouldn’t be able to control her. They should had implanted an explosive charge in her body.”

Hunter walks out of his office and down to his armory to gather the items he was going to need to take this girl out. He already knew that he couldn’t afford for her to get within hand-to-hand combat range. He wouldn’t stand much of a chance. She was too well trained to go hand-to-hand with. He was going to have to take her out from a distance. He’ll have to use every dirty trick he knew to lure her out into an open space. She was too good at concealing herself against being detected.

Hunter walks through his gear and select the most effective weapons to use against her. Drones and his sniper rifle would be his best bet. He grabs a missile or two to fire at her. He looks through his specialized traps and pick a few he can set up to lure here to where he wants her.

Cain’s Mansion: lower level training levels
Amy defends herself against Troy and his second as she tests them to see if they have absorbed the lessons. She likely taps Troy behind his head with the Bo-staff she was using since they were in their hybrid form. Amy has been changing up her weapons when she trained them.
She wanted them to be able defend themselves against any weapon used against them. That included handguns and rifles as well.

April hadn’t been too keen when she instructed several normal human security guards to fire at her. She had asked Cain to issue them M16’s and Uzi-sub machine guns loaded with real rounds. Her mother April didn’t like that idea and suggested rubber rounds, but Amy had convinced her that everything needed to be like she trained to demonstrate what she was trying to get across. It took a lot of convincing, but April finally relented to her daughter’s requests.

Once she demonstrated what she was trying to show Troy and his second. She used rubber rounds on them to teach them and when she was sure they had it down. She switched to real bullets. That woke them up when she shot them.

“Always expect the unexpected. Especially, from someone like me.”

Amy just smiles as she tries to shoot them. After they manage to dodge her attacks several times, she switches to another training method.
Which was defending themselves from different type of weapons. Everyone knew she prefers to use Sai’s, but she wanted them to know she could use anything as a weapon. So, that was the way she was going to train Troy and his second.

She has been using the Bo-staff and landing a few heavy whacks on their body. They may not be affected by the whacks, but it still hurts and will for a while.

When they go up for lunch. Amy had a smile on her face watching them limp as they walked. Troy just looks at her.

“You’re having too much fun, aren’t you?”

“Who me? No, I just feel sorry for you two. We still got a few more weeks of training before you can start training anyone else. Just think, all the joy I have of watching you and Darren get hurt. You’ll have that same fun with your trainees.”

Amy walks over to her seat next to her mother and start fixing herself a plate for lunch. Lately, she has begun to enjoy the different type of foods the chef makes. Her favorite has been the fried chicken and tacos. Before she was kept on a strict diet of shakes and protein cakes. The food she has been enjoying lately has been putting some weight on her body. So, she needed to spend more time in the gym training and working out to maintain her combat weight. The extra training was helping in keeping her weight down.

“Lady April, this package has arrived for Ms. Amy.”

One of the messengers Cain uses brings a brown wrapped package to April and herself.

“Don’t touch it mother.”

Amy stops the messenger. Her eyes had spotted something that she had seen before.

“Give me the package.”

The messenger hands the package to Amy and backs away. Amy looks down at the package and carefully walks away from the table with it.
She carries the package outside followed by her mother, Cain, Troy and Darren.

“Troy, can you give me your knife please?”

Troy hands Amy his knife. How she knew he had one was a surprise.

“Don’t look so surprised. I know my mother and Lady Joyce carries a hidden weapon as well. Only Uncle Cain has no reason to carry a weapon. He is a weapon.”

Amy smiles at Cain as she uses the knife to open the package. She was right in guessing it had been booby trap and by whom. Inside was a leather thong necklace with a few Tiger teeth hanging from it. She knew who this necklace belonged to and what he was doing. It was a challenge being requested by one of her teachers.

“What is it Amy?”

Troy could see the necklace like everyone else and wonder what it meant.

“I’m being challenged by one of my former instructors. His name is The Hunter and he was one of the worse trainers I ever had. He was the most sadistic, cruelest and loves to torture and inflict pain while he trains you. He came close several times to almost ending my life. If it wasn’t for my healing ability. I would have died.”

“So, that necklace is too let you know you’re being challenged?”

Troy was looking at Amy and the necklace.

“Yes and no. The place he wants to challenge me is an island I was taken to for my final test. I was air lifted in and dropped off without any
weapons except those I could make from what I could find on the island.”

“You know you can turned it down sweetie.”

“No, I can’t mom. The reason I can’t because he will lay waste to everything here. The Hunter has been known to launch rockets and deliver
explosive devices to his enemies. He’s never been caught.”

“How soon do you have to answer him?”

“By tomorrow mom.”

Amy stands up and hands her mother the necklace. She starts walking towards the house preparing herself for the fight to come.

Amy had snuck out in the middle of the night and headed to the HSL compound. It was the last place she wanted to go, but she needed to retrieve a case she had hidden there years ago. She notices that the HSL had been there and cleared out everything that belonged to them.
All their equipment and computer systems. She moves quietly through the abandon compound till she comes to the boiler room.

The case she wanted was hidden high up on the vent systems where she knew no one would ever find it. She had hidden the case there years ago, after the last mission she had gone on. Her handlers weren’t too happy when she told them it had been damage. Which, it really wasn’t.
She had found a way to make it look like it had been damage beyond repair.

Amy climbs up the equipment to retrieve the case and climbs back down. She props the case on an old work bench and opens it to make sure everything she needed was still inside. Everything was as she had left it. She heads back out of the compound and back towards the manor house. When she enters her bedroom through the window she had gone out of, she notices her mother waiting for her.

“Where did you go young lady?”

“To retrieve some equipment, mom. That should give me an edge against the Hunter. It was developed to fight were-wolves and other supernatural.”

“Well, what is it?”

“It’s a full fledge fiber optic camouflage suit. I can hide right in front of you and you’ll never know it, unless you bump into me. It hides my scent and body temperature. I can hide among a bunch of plants or trees and my body temperature will match the surrounding area, so I can’t be detected. This is how I managed to come in here and look around without any of you knowing I was here. My normal suit has some of the properties of this suit. The bracelets each contain a needle projectile that can either be set to kill you or take you down. The belt has specialized compartments that have useful items I can use. One of the items is a ball that has a low radioactive material in it. The other looking ball contains a special dye that only I can see with my eyes. If you or anyone else try to see it. They would need a special pair of goggles.”

“That’s sneaky. Is that how the HSL and the Hunter organization manages to follow people without being seen?”

“Yes ma’am. It’s something they borrowed from the CIA.”

“What weapons are you taking?”

“Just my Sais’s and a few throwing stars and knives, mom. Past that, I’ll need to make whatever weapons I can from the jungle like last time.”

“Do you know where the main headquarters is for the HSL, Amy?”

“It should be on that use drive I gave Uncle Cain.”

“I’ll remind him to look at it. Still, have you been there before?”

“Yes ma’am, but I was transported in an armor car and kept blindfolded.”

“Do you think what is in the case will be of some help to you?”

“I think it will give me a slight edge. I know he is going to use all his toys to keep me at a distance, because if I get within hand-to-hand range. I will win, mom.”

“When do you need to leave?”

“By this evening to get there by tomorrow morning. If I know the Hunter, he’ll already be there and will try to take me down before I get to the island.”

“Are you sure you don’t want any of the pack members to go with you?”

“I can’t mom. It’s against the rules and none of the members here would survive, except maybe Uncle Cain.”

“It’s that dangerous?”

“Yes ma’am. The Island use to be a training spot used by the US Military for their top 1% elite soldiers. People that don’t exist and if you run into them, you’re dead. The training there was so real that even some of their elite didn’t make it out of there. I’ve been there four times and each time it has gotten harder and harder to survive.”

April just shakes her head. She couldn’t believe their government would do something like and then let an organization like the HSL use the Island.

Amy walks over and hugs her mother. She hopes she is good enough to come back from the island. The last time she went she barely made it.

Amy could feel how scared Amy was and held her closer to her body.

“You’ll be fine sweetie. I know you will and once this is over with, hopefully you’ll never have to do this again.”

“I hope so mom. You can only go to the island so many times before it finally claims you.”

Amy knew this from listening to a few of the people who ran the island. They never did more than two tours on it, because there were still traps and explosives that hadn’t been found that could still kill you.”

Ava prepares herself and packs what she could take with her. She calls the secret number for the transport company that was responsible for transporting people out to the island. She is told to meet her ride at a certain location at a certain time and if she is late, they will leave without her.

When Amy gets there, she is checked for bugs and trackers. Her equipment is checked as well and once she has passed all the checks. She was permitted to board the plane.

All the windows had been blacked out so she couldn’t see where they were going. She changes into her stealth suit and then put her winged suit on. She was going to use that to land on the island.

“Get ready to jump.”

“Go!”

Amy jumps out of the plane and glide down to the ground. As she switches from the wing suit to her parachute, gunfire erupts from the island towards her. She also notices several drones flying towards her.

“Shit, this is going to hurt.”

Amy ditches the chute and free falls into the ocean. She had expected something like this from the Hunter. That’s why she had come in over the ocean, so if she had to drop. She would fall into the water. Her bones were strong enough to take the impact. She swims underwear to the shore and slips out of her flight suit and activates the camo suit functions. The drones that were sent against her lost contact of her.

Inside the Island Bunker:
“Dam it, where did she go?”

“We don’t know, sir. She has disappeared from our sensors.”

The field agents that had been sent by the HSL to help the Hunter couldn’t figure out what happened to their target. They had a firm lock on
her when she came out of the ocean and went into a group of trees along the shoreline and lost her.

“Find her!”

Hunter wanted to capture Agent 345 and torture her some before killing her outright. He paces back and forth behind the men and watch as
they sweep the area looking for her. All their smaller drones were crisscrossing the trees and several of the paths leading from the beach.

Several drones start going offline as their screens show static where their feeds use to be.

“She’s taking out our drones and we still can’t find her.”

“Launch a missile into that area.”

Beachside of the Island:
Amy was well hidden in the trees with her suit masking her heat signature. She knew the drones couldn’t see her. So, she started to eliminate them. As she takes the last one out. She notices that a bigger drone was coming towards her location. She saw it launch a missile towards the trees, which she was currently hiding in.

She jumps down and runs further into the woods as the trees behind her explode. Several more explosions go off behind her as some undetonated ordnance explodes. She spots a trip wire and jumps up into a tree to avoid the trap on the other side of the trip wire. She remembers the last one she jumped and almost blew herself to kingdom come. If she had landed a few more inches forwards, she would had set off the buried landmine.

Inside the Island Bunker:
“Send some men out to find her body. I want to make sure she is dead.”

“Yes sir.”

Outside on the Island:
Several guards go out into the woods looking for the dead girls remains. Amy spots them from her location up in the trees. She had seen where they had exit from the bunker and waits till they get further into the woods, before dropping down behind them and attacking. She may not like killing, but these men deserved it. She makes their death quick and painless. She runs up to the door of the bunker and steps to the side and knocks.

Inside the Island Bunker:

Amy places some C-4 on the bunker door that she had taken from one of the soldiers sent out to kill her.

Hunter was looking at all the monitors and hadn’t notice the explosive on the door. The camera near the door was clear and the one across from the door showed nothing.

Amy sets the explosive off and the door was blown inwards. As soon as the door is opened, she slips inside. She moves quickly through the corridors till she gets close to the control room, where she knew he would be. She stops just as she feels the presence around the corner of the corridor. She tosses some smoke pellets towards the area and hears choking. Amy listens carefully and tosses a throwing knife into the person that was coughing from the smoke.

She peeks around the corner and doesn’t spot anyone except the person laying on the ground dead. She carefully makes her way down the hallway towards the control room.

Hunter had seen a silhouette in the smoke on the camera facing that hallway junction. He remembered that the HSL had developed a suit with his help that could blend in with its environment. The last he heard was the suit had been damaged during a mission and they had thrown it out, because the company that had constructed the suit had been bought by the government.

Now he knew how she had evaded his drones and why no one saw her.

“That little sneak. I’ll show her.”

He takes several grenades and tosses them down the hallway.

Amy saw the grenades coming and knew she better get out of their way. She ducks right around the corner she just came from just as they explode. Amy knew that this hallway was the only way in and out into the control room. She turns the camo unit off and palms a few throwing stars into her hand.

She looks at the guy laying on the floor before her. She picks his gun up and targets the camera just above the door of the control room. Now, she figures he will be forced to come out and confront her.

Hunter couldn’t believe she took the camera out. He grabs his gun and the rest of the grenades. He had a few smoke grenades that he could fill the hallway with. He opens the control room door and tosses them out to fill the hallway.

Amy waits patiently for Hunter to come out. She knew he was going to use the smoke as a cover. It was a tactic he had taught her. She waits for him to make his move.

Hunter opens the door and steps out into the hallway; the smoke was still thick as he throws a flash grenade before him.
Amy lets fly the throwing stars she had been holding onto when he threw the flash grenade. She heard the stars make contact, just as she ducks as he opens fire with his sub-machine gun.

Hunter hadn’t expected the throwing stars as they hit him in the chest. He had his finger on the trigger as the smoke begin to thin and watched as two throwing knives came towards him. He moves out of the way, and the next thing he feels is his legs kicked out from under him. As he falls to the floor, he fills his chest punched hard.

Amy was standing in front of him.

“Your dead Hunter.” As Amy uses the old ways she was taught to sign. She knew Hunter knew the old way she did things and would recognize it.

“You think so little girl?”

He presses a button on his gloved hand and the explosives he rigged goes off.

Amy feels herself picked up and blown down the hallway. Her body smacks hard against the wall at the other end as ceiling debris buries them. She blacks out after some debris smacks her on the side of her head.

Amy finally starts coming around. She doesn’t know how long she has been passed out. Her head was hurting her and she was lying face first on the floor. She felt a heavy weight pressing down on her petite body and her arms were pinned by her side. Her whole body was hurting from injuries she sustained from being blown into the wall and having a ceiling dropped on her. She tries to concentrate to see if she could feel if the Hunter was still alive, but her head starts to hurt even more. Tears slide down her cheeks from the pain she felt.

She works at trying to get her arms free and finally manages to get them free. She pushes down on the floor and tries to lift her body up enough to pull herself out from under the rubble. After three tries, she manages to wiggle her body and pull her legs out from whatever was pinning them to the floor. She screams mentally as she feels something cut into both her legs as she manages to pull them free.

The stealth suit was damaged and would need to be repaired before she could wear it again. Whatever cut through the suit, had cut into her legs. The cut extended from the bottom of her butt cheeks all the way down the back of both her legs. She was lucky she didn’t cut her Achilles tendon. She was surrounded by total darkness. Amy pulls a light stick from a side pocket and activate it. This way she would have some light to at least see what her condition was. She knew there was a wall behind her, because she had been blown against it. The hallway in front of her was blocked by a mountain of debris. She looks upwards to see if maybe she could climb upwards towards a shaft or something.

There was fresh air coming in from somewhere. She wets her finger to see which direction the air was coming in from. She climbs the mountain of debris up into an area above her head and test the air again to see which direction she had to go. She crawls along carefully on some pipes. The supports had been damaged and they were just free floating in the space. She feels some water dripping down on her battered body. She looks up to determine where the drip was coming from. She could hear what sounded like rain splattering against a flat surface. She locates a crack in the roof of the bunker. It was a small hole. It was too small for her to crawl through, but she could put her finger through the hole.

Amy closes her eyes and balls her fist up and concentrate her chi and slams her fist into the hole, breaking the concrete around it. She pulls her fist back and does it again, making the hole wide enough for her to pull her body through. Amy wiggles through the hole and felt the rain as it hit her abused, battered, cut up body.

It was night time outside of the bunker and the rain was coming down in buckets. She was laying on top of the bunker sticking out from the hillside it had been built into. The rain felt nice against her face and exposed skin. She lays there with her eyes closed and wish her head would stop hurting. She opens her eyes and stare up at the clouds as the rain comes down. She knows there is food on the island that is safe to eat. She just didn’t feel like moving right now. Her whole entire body was hurting and she was feeling every cut, gash and bruise on her body. As much as she didn’t want to get up, she forces herself to stand up and climb down from the roof.

When she starts walking away from the bunker, she notices she has a slight limp to her walk. The blood flow from the cuts on the back of her legs have stop, but the wound itself was closing slowly. She makes her way to a former camp area she used the last time she was here. Amy knew there were trees near it that she could get food from. She limps to her former campsite and once there, she collapses to the ground. The injuries she sustained were taking a toll on her petite body. Luckily for her, there were several coconuts laying around she could drink from and eat. She knew there was some mango and papayas nearby she could grab.

She crawls over towards the area where she slept on her last visit. She cleared the area away from all the debris and fixed the lean-to she built last time. It was taking everything she had to move around, even after drinking a few coconuts and eating the coconut meat. Her body was using what energy she had left to heal the damage done to her.

Once the lean-to was fixed and back in position. She crawls under it and let her body shutdown to heal. Amy slips into an unconscious state, but still aware of what was going on around her. She doesn’t know how long she will sleep, but she could feel the difference in the temperature when it changes from night into day. It was still raining and she was still recovering. She knew the cuts she had on the back of her legs were completely healed. The few broken bones she had from the ceiling falling on her were healed.

She spends two days sleeping. No one had bother to come to the island to check on the Hunter. Which, meant he knew the way here. She wakes-up on the third morning feeling extremely hungry. She stands up off the make shift bed she had made to sleep on. She had to use the lean-to for support, because her energy reserves were dangerously low. She looks around and spots a papayas tree. She grabs two throwing knives and manages to climb up the tree and cut down at least a dozen to eat. She makes her way back down to the ground barely standing because of how much energy she just used. Amy gathers the papayas up and take them back to her camp. The place she had chosen for her camp was well hidden and protected. It was in the middle of a bunch of bamboos. The tree cover was so thick, you couldn’t get a drone through or see anything from satellites or from airplanes.

Once she starts eating the papayas she couldn’t stop herself. Her body was craving the nutrients and calories. She felt her energy levels returning with each papaya she ate. By the time she got to her tenth papaya, she was feeling a whole lot better. She still had two left over that she couldn’t eat.

“I’ll save you two for later.”

Amy gets up and grabs a spear she made last time she was here and leaves the safety of her camp. She makes her way back towards the bunker to see if The Hunter survived. As Amy got closer to the bunker, she moved quietly and cautiously. She stops and searches the area near the door she had blown in to see if there were any footsteps around the door coming out of the bunker. She goes further inward and follows her original route and comes to a massive amount of debris. None of it had been moved and there was no way he could had survive the huge amount of debris there was.

She wonders if he climbed out like she did or was there another way out of the bunker? She looks around the bunker, but she couldn’t find any other escape route out of the place. There was a cafeteria and a few spare rooms to bunk in. There was a weapons locker, prep area and a storage area. She finds a jumpsuit she could change into, since her stealth suit was damage. Even her skintight body suit was going to need some work when she got back. Amy folds everything up and finds a backpack she could put it in to carry it with her.

She spends the day exploring the bunker and finds a path that goes down to the boat docks. Docked at the docks were two strange looking boats. She goes down to the docks to get a closer look at them. It had some sort of canopy that covered where the passenger sat. When she looked inside. She notices six individual seats and a large cargo area. Amy gets into the boat and walks up to the console where there were two buttons. One was marked inbound and the other was marked outbound.

“I wonder?”

Amy gets out and run towards where her camp was and retrieves some mangoes, papayas and coconuts to take back with her. She lays her lean-to down on the ground and runs back towards the boats. Once she is inside the boats, she presses the outbound button and the canopy comes down sealing her inside and she feels the boat moving backwards on its own power. She sits down on the seat as the boat spins around and heads away from the island. She can’t see anything outside the canopy.

The boat makes a sharp turn and goes straight for a while. Then it makes another sharp turn and straightens up. It circles back on itself a few times.

Amy shakes her head. Whoever, provided transportation to the island and back was making sure you couldn’t find your way back. The canopy opens and the boat pulls into a privately-owned boat dock.

Amy gets out of the boat and looks around. She had no idea where she was, but after a while the boat backs out and turns around. It heads away from the dock and back towards where it came from. Amy watches as the boat heads off and then looks around to see where she was.
There was nothing to indicate where she was. All she knew, she wasn’t where she was supposed to be.

She looks down and spots some tracks and follow them back to an asphalt parking lot. Parked in the parking lot, was a hi-tech looking SUV that Amy knew belonged to the Hunter. She walks over towards it and manages to break in with no problem. She bypasses all the security measures the Hunter put in place, like they were nothing. She starts the SUV up and looks around to see if he left a cell phone or something in the SUV. She knew cellphones, radios or any other communication devices weren’t permitted on the island. Not that they would work anyway. There was a jamming field that surrounded the island to prevent such items from working.

Amy finds a cell phone and sends a message to her mother.

“Mom, I have survived and made it back to the main land, but I don’t know where I am. I took the boat back.”

“Oh, sweetie I am so happy to hear from you. Let me get your Uncle Cain to put a trace on the cellphone you are using. He can tell me where you are and I can come out and get you.”

“Okay, mom.”

Amy waits while her Uncle Cain traces the cell phone she is using. Twenty minutes later Amy gets a response from her mother.

“You’re in New Smyrna Beach, FL Sweetie. Me and Troy are on our way right now to come and get you. Stay where you are till we arrive, sweetie.”

“Okay, mom.”

Amy turns the van off and lean back in the seat and make sure the doors are locked and wait for her mother and Troy to show-up to retrieve her.

Amy had fallen asleep while waiting for her mother and Troy. She had arrived sometime in the afternoon and it had gotten dark while she was asleep. She looks at the time on the cellphone and it was showing ten at night. She was feeling a little warm and climbs out of the SUV and looks around. There were no other lights around her and she was all by herself. She walks around the parking lot and enjoys the cool breeze coming off the ocean. She takes her boots off and wade out into the water. This was the first time she has ever been out in an ocean before.

She’s been in swimming pools, but never in an ocean before for enjoyment.

She walks back to shore and takes her clothes off and walk down into the water. It felt nice against her warm skin. She swims around for a while just enjoying the night and the water. While she is in the water, a vehicle pulls up and stop. She watches from the water.

“Amy, where are you?” She hears her mother’s voice in her head.

“Down here in the water mother.”

Lady April and Troy look over towards the water and spots Amy out in the water.

“What are you doing out there?”

He notices her clothes were on the shore.

“I’ve never been to a beach before.”

Lady April just smiles at Amy confession. The two of them just stand there watching Amy as she swam around in the water. She disappears under the water for a few minutes and comes back up.

“Alright kiddo, time to come in. We didn’t bring a towel with us.”

“That’s okay. Oh, Troy. You might want to bring The Hunter’s SUV back with us. It has a computer system inside, but I couldn’t crack the code on it.”

Amy comes walking out of the water in the nude over towards her mother. April could still see some of the injuries Amy sustain fighting for her
life. She spots the red lines on the back of her legs where something had cut into her legs.

Lady April kneels to look at the pink lines.

“Sweetie, what did this to you?”

April was tracing the lines down to her ankle.

“A roof had collapse on me, pinning my legs and when I went to pull myself free. I cut myself all the way till I manage to get free. I’ve eaten
some fruit to replenish what I lost in calories in healing, but my body is still healing a lot of damage.”

“What happened to the Hunter?”

“I don’t know, but I did try to find his body. There was just too much debris blocking where he could have been. I’m not sure if he is dead or still trapped inside. If he is still alive, it’s going to be awhile before he’ll be free.”

“Do you know if there are repair teams that go out to the island if the control center gets damage?”
Amy had to think about that question.

“I’ve never seen a team before, but I think there is a team or someone that comes out to do some repairs. I remember damaging one of their Gatling guns and when I went back it was repair. So, maybe someone will go out to the island and free him or not.”

“I think we can transport that vehicle back to the mansion and have Frank go over it. He use to work for the cyber-command at Norad.”

“Cool.”

“Troy, can you give Amy your T-shirt to wear, please?”

Lady April had gone over to the clothes Amy had taken off and looked at them. They were blood stained and smelled of her and a few other people that had worn them. They didn’t fit Amy well and Lady April wasn’t going to have her daughter wear them home.

“Sure. Lady April.”

Troy takes his t-shirt off and hand it to Amy.

Amy puts it on and it comes down to her knees.

“Mom, I think it’s a little big on me.” She holds her hands out.

“I would rather have you wear Troy’s shirt, till we get you some proper clothes Amy.”

“Okay.”

“Why don’t I follow you girls to a nice hotel and we’ll make arrangements to have this SUV shipped. We can fly back to Montana tomorrow
night.”

“Okay, let me get my fruit from the SUV first.”

Amy runs over to the SUV and grab the fruit she brought back from the Island. She walks back over to Troy and her mother.

“You got those from the Island you were on?”

“Yep, I pigged out on at least ten of the papayas before I got any of my energies back. I collected a few coconuts, mangos and papayas to bring home with me.”

“Alright let’s head to a nice hotel and get you some nice clothes to wear.” Lady April heads over to the SUV her and Troy came in to pick Amy up.

Amy walks over to the passenger side and get in. Lady April gets in on the driver side and they watch as Troy starts the Hunter’s SUV up and they head out. Amy curls up on the seat, while Lady April looks for a nice hotel to spend the night in. As they are driving, a group of six motorcycles ride by the car.

“Oh, great. The Dark Fangs are in the neighborhood.”

“Who are the Dark Fangs, mom?”

Amy was curious. She had turned around in her seat to look out the back windshield and watched as they turned around and were coming back towards them.

“I’m surprised your superiors didn’t tell you sweetie. They are vampire trouble shooters that travel the United States visiting the different areas that have a regional vampire leader. They make sure that the laws are uphold and that every new vampire created is recorded. IF they aren’t then it’s the Dark Fangs job to kill them.”

“I was told that there weren’t any vampires in our area. That Uncle Cain killed them all.”

“There aren’t. Your Uncle and several members form the pack did kill off the group that had been in his territory. However, were not in our territory and there might be a regional leader here that might have gotten wind of us coming in.”

“Well, if they try anything, I can handle them mom.”

The leader of the bike group pulls up next to the SUV and points to a parking lot belonging to a grocery store. He stays next to the Suv while the other motorcycles surround the Hunter’s SUV.

Lady April pulls into the parking lot followed by Troy. They stop in the middle of the parking lot and get out. Amy walks around to stand next to her mother.

The leader got off his motorcycle and walks over to face Lady April. He looks her over and knew right away who she was. The young girl that should next to her wearing a t-shirt twice her sized was standing next to her in a protective stance and looked directly at him. He paid no mind to the other bare-chested man standing behind Lady April and Driving a SUV he knew belonged to the Hunter.

“What brings you all the way from Montana to this neck of the world?”

Amy was watching the man. She notices he had a tattoo covering half his face and looked to be about middle aged. His long raven black
straight hair was braided into a pony tail. He was wearing black leather pants, black leather jacket with a dark blue dress shirt underneath. The black leather pants hug his legs and went into a pair black leather boots. She could feel that he wasn’t very old. She also felt someone trying to enter her mind.

“Retrieving my daughter and taking her back home is all, Riker.”

Lady April rest her hand on Amy’s shoulder.

Riker looks at Amy and couldn’t see any resemblance to Lady April at all.

“She doesn’t look like you. Where is your other daughter?”

“She died during an attack from the HSL. A specialized group attacked us and my daughter was taken out by one of their sadistic fighters.”

“I’m sorry to hear about that. The Hunter organization and the HSL have been attacking a few areas owned by some Master vampire clans.
The reason I asked you to pull over, the SUV your second there was driving belongs to The Hunter. I would like to know how you guys came upon it.”

“Let’s just say he decided to fight someone who is a better fighter then he was and leave it at that.”

A proud evil smile appears on Lady April’s face.

Riker notices the smile, but he was looking at Amy. He has been trying to enter her mind, but he felt a strong defense each time.

“So, you’re taking his SUV back to Montana?”

“Yes.”

“How long are you staying?”

“We’re leaving tomorrow evening. I need to get some clothes for my daughter and make arrangement for the SUV to be transported.”

“Very well. As a show of kindness. I will give you two days to leave this area. If another vampire or the Regional vampire lord stop you. Tell them I approved your passage and stay. Have a nice night Lady April.”

“You too, Riker.”

All three watched as the motorcycle gang rides off.

“Mom, is he good for his word?”

“Yes sweetie, he is. If Riker says to repeat his name to a regional lord, he means it. He answers to the council like all special investigators do
and if they break their word. The council sends two of their members to destroy them.”

“Oh, well I felt someone trying to probe my mind.”

“I bet it was Riker. He was curious about you.”

“Well, he didn’t get into my mind. He kept meeting my defense wall.”

“Well, let’s go and find hotel ladies.”

“Spoil sport.” Amy hits Troy lightly.

“Watch it runt or I’ll give you a spanking on your bare bottom.”

Amy just smiles and head to the passenger side of the SUV and gets back in. They drive for another fifteen minutes and find a high-class Marriot to spend the night at. They get one room with twin beds and Amy sleeps with Lady April, after she takes a nice relaxing bath. By the time Amy closes her eyes and lay her head down on the pillow. She is gone to the world as she snuggles up against her mother.

Amy was happy to be back home in Montana. She stretches under her blankets on her bed and just stare up at the ceiling. Her Uncle Cain had left a giant stuff toy tiger on her bed. She had curled up with it when they got in yesterday afternoon. Troy had the Hunter’s SUV transported to a shop owned by two pack members to go over. He had their local computer specialist access the computers and files on his system.

Amy glances over towards her bedroom window and noticed the sun was just raising. She loved the orange and red colors the sun produce first thing in the morning. She grabs her tiger and hug him tight against her body. She closes her eyes and tries to go back to sleep, but unfortunately her body won’t let her.

Amy slides out of bed and grabs her robe and slip it on. She steps into her slippers and heads downstairs to see who else was up. Her nose picks up the familiar smell of bacon and sausage drifting in from the dining room.

“Morning Uncle.”

Amy grabs a biscuit and make herself a sausage and egg biscuit. She also grabs a bowl and fills it with some homemade cheese grits. Since leaving the HSL, she has come to enjoy the different types and ways that food is prepared and served. She never knew what she was missing and how good it could be. She sometimes still drinks the protein shakes every once in awhile. Especially if she is planning on training all day long. She didn’t like to take a break to eat a big lunch and then go back to training. The protein shakes were good for that.

“Do you think Hunter survived the collapse of the ceiling on him, Amy?”

“I don’t know, Uncle. All I do know is if I wasn’t like I am, I would had died. I was buried under a lot of rubble and cut my legs trying to get out from under it.”

“Could he had taken ruby to survive or be waiting for the maintenance team to show-up.”

“Its possible Uncle. All I do know is, he wasn’t using ruby. He won’t use that type of stuff. He’s a health nut.”

Amy had been wandering herself if he might had survived. She takes a bite out of her biscuit. She eats her biscuit and enjoys her bowl of cheese grits, after she adds a little pepper to it.

“So, when do you want to start leaning your job around here?”

“What job is that Uncle?”

Amy looks towards Cain.

“I’m making you mine and your Aunt Joyce’s personal assistant. That way you can appear as normal as you can and still use your talents if need be.”

“Okay, I’ll do it. Does my mother approve of this?”

“Yes, I approve.”

Amy heard her mother’s voice in her head. She starts looking for her mother and spot her walking into the dining room. She watches her mother as she gets closer to her seat.

“Did you sleep okay?”

April takes her seat next to her daughter.

“I slept like a baby, mom.”

“Oh, Uncle. Thank you for the tiger. I like him.”

“Your welcome.”

Cain looks over at Amy and had a proud look on his face.

After breakfast, Amy changes out of her night clothes and into her jogging outfit.

“Mom, I’m going for a jog.”

“Alright, be careful.”

“I will.”

Amy starts off slow as she leaves by the back door from the kitchen. She takes a deep breath and enjoy the morning fresh air as she runs. She so loved living out in Montana and the cool morning air. She increases her pace and run further. She was going for a forty mile run today. As she leaves the private road that lead to the Manor house. She increases her pace even more and runs down the highway. She didn’t have to worry about any State Troopers telling her she can’t run along the highway.

Amy looks around as she ran. Something wasn’t feeling right to her. It was a nagging feeling she has come to trust. She was fifteen miles away from the private road that lead to the manor house. She hears a buzzing like she heard before when she was on the Island. The next thing she feels is herself flying through the air and landing a few feet from where she had been. Her whole body was hurting her and she had a ring in her ears.

Several more missiles impacted near her. She was hurting from the explosion and could barely move. She notices four forms coming towards her really fast. Just as she was getting up, one leaps onto her and locks it muzzle onto her right shoulder. If she had the capability to scream or make some sort of sound it would be coming out of her mouth right now. Amy punches her hand into the giant ass Were-wolf looking dogs chest and yanks his lungs out through the hole her hand had made. The other animals were locking their teeth on her legs and trying to get to her neck.

Amy slams her fist onto the animals head biting her left leg. She hears the cracking of the skull as her fist goes into its brain matter. She opens her mouth to scream as she feels the animal snapping her tibia and fibula bone in the lower part of her right leg. She grits her teeth as she summons what strength she has left to punch the animal in front of her. She puts her fist right through the front of the animals skull and out the back of the skull. She hears more missiles coming in and pull the dead dog bodies over hers to protect her from the impacts of the missiles.

The Manor House:
Lady April was enjoying her morning coffee when she felt Amy’s pain. She drops her coffee cup onto the table shattering the cup and spilling what coffee was it in.

“Amy has been hurt.”

She gets up fast from the table and shifts into her cat form. She runs out the manor house door followed by several other pride members.
Cain’s huge Lion cat form runs side by side with April’s cat and listens as she tells him mentally in which direction to run. As they get closer to her location, they notice she is under missile attack.

Two squads of cats led by Troy run off in the direction where the missiles were coming from. Lady April wanted to get closer to Amy, but she couldn’t because of the missiles impacting around her. She lets out a frustrating roar because she couldn't get to her cub. After a while the missiles stopped impacting around Amy’s mangled body. Cain, Lady April and Joyce walk over where Amy’s body was and noticed that she was under a bunch of animal bodies. Cain changes into his hybrid form and throws the dead animal bodies off of Amy’s body.

He spots her body covered in blood under the bodies with shrapnel sticking out of her whole body. She was bleeding from bites to her arm and legs. Cain carefully picks Amy’s body up off the ground and carry her over to his sister-in-law.

Lady April had already changed forms and was in her hybrid form when Cain hands Amy to her carefully.

“We need to get her back to the Manor.”

“Cain, we caught a few of the people responsible for attacking Amy.”

“Bring them to the manor to be interrogated.”

Cain wasn’t in a good mood and his cat wanted to tear someone to pieces. He runs with Lady April and his wife as they take Amy back to the manor. All of them knew she could heal herself, but they needed to get the shrapnel out of her body before it started healing. They get Amy home and down to the infirmary. Lady April changes back to her human form and start prepping Amy for surgery. The Pride Doctor was on route to the manor house.

Lady April brushes some of Amy’s blood soak hair out of her eyes. She wanted to use her healing ability on Amy right now, but she couldn’t till they get all the shrapnel out of her body. She felt Amy’s mind go into the trance she uses to heal herself. She had already set Amy’s leg bones so they would heal properly. The pride doctor finally shows up and gets to work pulling the shrapnel from Amy’s body. Lady April stood nearby to help out.

“How did they know where she was?”

Cain was pacing back and forth still pissed off about his niece being attacked.

“I can answer that question, Cain.”

Troy comes walking into his office.

“Amy’s got a tracker even she didn’t know about implanted at the base of her skull. Only a few people knew about the tracker. The doctor who put it there is downstairs in the cells.”

“Why didn’t her body reject it?”

“Because the outer skin covering is made from her cells. They kept the secret about her tracker even from the Hunter, but when she came back to us. They knew he failed and went to this plan. They were hoping the serum they developed would turn the dogs they sent after her would kill her. The serum was the same type that Bryan of the Kingman’s pack had come across. It had turned a local girl named Ginny into a CoyWolf. The coywolf that had been given the serum to turn the animal into a Were, but it didn’t work. Instead, it transmitted the serum and genetic material in its bite to Ginny and turned her into a coywolf.”

“They used a serum meant to turn ordinary dogs into Were-wolves.”

“Yep, the HSL is trying to find other ways to fight us. ”

“Have you looked at the information Amy gave you?”

“Yes, but there wasn’t anything in it that mention that serum.”

“Get me Bryan on the phone and get what is left of those dogs down to the doctor and have Azura analyze their blood if there is enough left.”

“I’m on it.”

Troy picks the phone up and call Azura first and get her to come to the manor house right away. Everything she would need was down in the lab they had on the sub-levels.

“Hello?”

Azura had just gotten in from her morning ride and was in the process of fixing herself a fruit salad when her cell phone ranged.

“Azura, its Troy. I need you to get here to the manor house as soon as you can. We have some animals that have been changed into Were creatures and want to know how it was done.”

“I’ll be there soon, Troy.”

“Alright, just get here as soon as you can.”

Troy disconnects. He dials Bryan’s pack house number.

Ginny was walking by when the phone rang. She had the day off and was going to spend it out by the pool, since all the guys were gone.

She picks the phone up and answers it.

“You’ve reached Butch’s butcher shop. You catch’em, we’ll butcher them.”

Troy recognized the voice right away.

“Funny Ginny, put your Alpha on.”

“No can do, kemosabe. The boss men are out of town today. I’m the only one here today.”

“Do you have Bryan’s or Leonard’s cell phone number?”

“Yep, they made me memorize it when I first joined.”

“Give me their numbers please.”

“Okay, Bryan’s is 928-654-3211 and Leonard’s is 928-754-8987. Is there anything I can do for you?”

“Yes, whatever happened to that veterinarian that developed that serum that turned you?”

“He was sent to jail for illegal experimentation on animals and humans. Why?”

“Do you know what happened to his notes on the serum?”

“Yes, but you didn’t tell me why.”

“Ginny, just answer my question. You know I outrank you.”

“I don’t have to listen to you. I’m outside the control of you guys.”

Ginny found out last year that her CoyWolf wasn’t affected by her Alpha’s influence or any other Alpha’s.

Troy wonders what she meant by that.

“Alright, since your being stubborn. One of our members just got attacked by four dogs that looked to have been changed by the serum.”

“Is your pack member alright?”

“She’s going to live. Now, will you answer my question please?”

“Alright, don’t get your tail in a twist. We have the formula and the two vials of the serum that turned me stored in our vault. Bryan won’t allow any computerized records to be made of the serum.”

“Do you know if that veterinarian shared the information with anyone else?”

“You’ll have to ask Bryan that question. I wasn’t involved in the investigation. Bryan has all the files and kept me out of it, till the end.”

“Alright, thanks Ginny and behave yourself.”

“You're welcome and no can do. I’m the mischief type around here.”

“Bye, Ginny.”

Troy hangs up and calls Bryan’s cell phone. He doesn’t get Bryan, so he leaves a message for Bryan to call him back and why.

Cain’s office door opens and his wife comes walking in. She’s followed by Lady April.

“How is she?”

“She’s going to live, but she’s in a deep trance right now healing. I don’t think she’s going to be coming around any time soon.”

“Did the doctor remove the tracker from her head?”

“Yes, and she had to be very careful. It was right at the base of her brain stem.”

“How long do you think she is going to be in the trance?”

“Three or four days at best. She took a lot of damage to her body.”

“Alright, when she wakes up. Let me know.”

“I will Cain. If you’ll excuse me. I’m going to go and torture one of the men sent to kill her.”

Lady April eyes were in their cat forms. Cain and Joyce could feel how pissed she was.

“I better go with her.”

Troy follows behind Lady April as they head down to the holding cells.

Amy snuggles up against her mother’s cat. She had recovered enough that they could move her from medical and up to her bedroom to finish recovering. Lady April had gotten the answers she wanted from their prisoners, after she had mauled one of them with her claws. She had gotten right in his face and the stupid bastard started mouthing off at her. She left several wide slashes on his chest. After that display of anger, the rest of the prisoners had cooperated with Cain.

Lady April had stayed in her tigress form to protect her cub. Cain had to move Amy from her bed, to a futon mattress on the floor of her room so Lady April could curl around her cub and protect it. The IV they had hooked into Amy’s arms had delivered enough nutrients to bring some of her color back. She had lost all color to her skin. She had lost so much color that you could see her muscles and all her veins underneath her skin.

Amy buries her face against her mother’s furry side and slips back into sleep.

Cain sticks his head in to check on Amy and his sister-in-law.

“How is she doing?” Cain couldn’t see Amy’s body because Lady April was covering it with her own body.

“She’s exhausted. Her skin has some color back to it, but not much. She looks like an ancient vampire with how pale she is.”

“Did Bryan ever get back to you?”

“Yes, he’s flying out here himself with Ginny. He’s bring what he has with him, so we can compare it with what was in the dogs that got changed.”

Cain walks over and kneels next to Lady Aprils cat and spots Amy’s head turned towards her mother’s body.

“Can she breathe like that?”

“She’s breathing fine. Her rate of breathing is below normal, but I guess it’s because of her healing. She’s breathing 2 to 3 times per minute.
Which I know is extremely low, but for when she is in a healing state. That’s normal for her.”

Cain lightly touches the side of Amy’s neck and could barely detect a pulse.

“OW!”

“What happened, April?”

“Amy just latched onto one of my teats and is trying to milk from it.”

“She must be hungry.”

Cain moves his hand to where Amy’s mouth was latched onto April’s teat and pry her off.

“Come on youngster. Let’s get an IV hooked into you so you can get some nutrients into you.”

“I have an idea. Go and have some baby bottles sent up with her favorite juice and that protein drink she normally drinks. I can bottle feed her.”

Twenty minutes later. The kitchen sends up several baby bottles of Amy’s favorite juice and the protein shake she normally drinks when training. Lady April was holding Amy like a baby as she bottled feed her. Neither Lady April or Cain could get over how fast Amy was sucking the bottles down. By the time they got to the tenth bottle, Amy had her normal color back and most of her wounds were completely healed.

“We’re going to have to remember that for now on.”

“I would say so. She sucked them down like a newly turned Wolf or Cat that ate their first kill.”

“She’s slowly coming around.”

Amy slowly opens her eyes and could tell she wasn’t on her bed, but in her mother’s arms.

“How are you feeling kitten?”

“Weak mother.”

“You’ve been asleep for the past three days. Do you have enough strength to stand up?”
Amy nods her head slowly.

Lady April lets Amy slide from her lap as she helps her stand up. Amy was a little wobbly as she stood in front of her Uncle and mother. She tries taking a step and is shaky when she moves. She could feel her balance was off. Something was different about her body. She closes her eyes and try to center herself. She opens them and tries to take another step. She wobbles again like a new born deer. She takes one more step and falls into Cain’s arms.

“Easy, Amy. You just woke-up and you’re not completely healed yet.”

“I know Uncle, but I feel different for some reason.”

Amy turns around in her Uncle’s arms and try walking back to her mother. Her steps were less wobbly, but she was still shaky. She sits back down on her mother’s lap and let her pull her tight against her body.

“We found out you had a tracker inside your body at the base of your skull where your brain stem started. It was covered with cells from your body and hidden so well, that even someone with a healing ability like your mothers would had felt it. One of the people that knew about it was the doctor that helped engineered you. He placed it there so if you ever turned or went against the HSL, they could find and kill you.”
Amy got very angry when she heard what Cain just told her. She wanted to go down and killed that doctor. She wanted to make it very slow and very painful. She knew how to draw it out to make him feel every painful sensation.

“I think you shouldn’t had told her that Cain. Amy wants to make that doctor pay I mean really pay.” Lady April could feel the anger in her daughter. It was something she had never felt from Amy before.

Cain looks at Amy’s eyes and could see how pissed she was. He had never seen that look on her face before. She normally had a sweet disposition.

“Amy calm down. Your mother has already had a very nasty talk with him along with Troy and myself. We had to pull your mother off him to keep her from killing him.”

Cain tries to calm Amy, but he hit a block on her. She had thrown up a barrier to keep people from messing with her emotions. That was a first for him and her. She hadn’t shown anything like that before. April did say she could keep Riker out of her head with a mental barrier, but Amy has never kept him or any family member out of her head before.

“Sweetie, calm down or I’m going to get upset. My cat doesn’t like it when its cub is pissed and she will want to go and kill him.”

Lady April had felt her cat responding to Amy’s emotions. Ever since their first cub died, her cat has been more protective of their current one.
Amy takes a deep breath and tries to calm down. She tries several times to center herself and use positive energy to negate her anger. After five tries, she manages to get her anger under control.

“Uncle, what were those animals that attacked me?”

“They were normal dogs that had been modify by a serum the HSL had created. Bryan has run into something like it and is bring what he had. There was a person who was accidently changed by the effects of it when she was bitten.”

“How was she changed by it?”

Lady April was curious about this and wonder if Amy will be affected by it.

“I can’t be changed mom. My genetics prevent me from being changed. I don’t know what they splice me with, but the other half of my genetics makes me immune to the virus that creates Were’s and a few other creatures. If a vampire drunk my blood, they would burst into flames.”

Lady April looks at Amy “you have fought a vampire before?”

“Yes ma’am. Me and several of my brothers and sisters were sent to a town that had a major vampire problem and wiped them all out. The serum that my brothers and sisters took made them immune from vampires. It’s in the records I gave Uncle Cain.”

Lady April looks over at her brother-in-law “you need to sit down and go through that information.”

“I have, but I guess I missed it. I’ll have to go through it again so we can use it at the gathering.”

“I can help you Uncle. I know where most of the information is.”

“Alright, when you are feeling better. Come and give your poor Uncle a hand.”

Amy just smile as she snuggles against her mother and drift off to sleep again.

Cain just smiles as he watches Amy fall asleep snuggled again his sister-in-law.

“She’s falling asleep again.”

“I know. I felt her drift off. Why don’t you go and read those reports and I’ll sit here with her for a while?”

“Okay, let me know if you need anything.”

“I will.” Lady April watches as Cain makes his way out of Amy’s bedroom.

“Come on Amy, you need to build your strength back up.”

Troy was helping Amy get back into fighting shape. Ever since they removed the tracker from Amy’s spine, she’s been having problems with her coordination and recovery.

Amy had sweat pouring down her face as she pushes herself to do three more sets of weight lifts. She’s never had this much trouble after recovery. She pushes herself and finally finishes doing a full thirty weight lifts. She sits up and looks towards Troy with a tired look on her face.

“I know your still recovering pumpkin, but we need to get you back to fighting shape again.” He hands a towel to Amy.

“Thank you.” She takes the towel and wipe her face with it.

“Alright, you have rested enough. Let’s head to the pool and you can give me three hundred laps.”

Amy just shoots him a dirty look as she heads over to the pool and strip out of her workout clothes and into her one piece. She straps on fifteen pounds of weight and starts doing three hundred laps.

“How is she?”

Lady April had come down to the training center to see how her baby was doing.

“She’s still below her normal fighting strength. Taking that tracker out has messed up her body. Plus, I think she might be scared from everything that has happened to her.”

“I think you’re right. She’s been coming to my room at night and sleeping with me. Sometimes during the night, I can feel her shake against me.”

“Next time she does, see if she’ll let you go deeper into her mind. It might help her.”

“I will.” Lady April just watches Amy as she does her laps.

Her little kitten has been through more than any person or Were has ever been through. She wonders what her kitten is going to be like in a few years? Will she be like a lot of the older Were’s that have been around for a long time? Lady April just sighs as she continues to watch her baby.

After Amy does three hundred laps, she floats around to cool off. She had spotted her mother watching her while she did her laps.

Amy looks at her mother “why don’t you join me, mom?”

“I’ve never been very fond of large bodies of water.”

Lady April does take her shoes off and walk over and sit on the side of the pool with her feet dangling into the water.

Amy swims over towards her mother and let her legs support her while she looks up at her. She has come to see Lady April as her birth mother. She just wishes she really was her birth mother instead of being created in a test tube.

Lady April spends a while with her daughter at the pool. She watches Amy as she just floats in front of her with the help from her legs.

“Come on sweetie. Let’s go and get you some lunch. I believe the chef is making tacos today and I know how much you love them.”

Amy swims over next to her mother and pull herself out of the pool. She stands still as Lady April dries her off. She picks up her exercise shorts and shirt and slips them on over her swim suit. She heads up to her bedroom and takes a shower to get the chlorine and what other chemicals off her. As she is taking a shower, she has a flashback of all those missiles striking her. She screams out mentally as she falls onto the floor of the shower and cowers in the corner shaking like a leaf.

Cain and Lady April come rushing into Amy’s bathroom and notices her in the corner of her shower cowering and trembling as the water falls from the shower head.

Cain turns the water off and Lady April steps into the shower and pick-up her trembling kitten. She had felt and seen what did this to Amy. She was suffering from all those missiles going off around her. Amy clings to Lady April crying and shaking. Amy was scared and frightened. She never felt like this before and it was scaring her.

“Sshhh, it’s going to be alright sweetie. You’re safe and I won’t allow anyone to hurt you.”

“I was afraid of this.” Troy walks in as he says those words.

Cain just looks at him and then back towards Lady April.

“Why don’t you take her to your room April.”

“I think that might be a good idea.”

Lady April carries Amy to her bedroom and changes forms and let Amy bury herself against her furry body. She knew Amy always felt safer when she was in her tiger form.

Cain just watches as Amy lays naked next to her mother’s tiger form.

Troy had stood by the door watching Amy and Lady April. Once Cain comes walking out of Lady April’s room.

“I was worried that she was going to develop PTSD.”

“Why do you say that?” Cain looks towards his second.

“First, she has a ceiling drop on top of her in a bunker and buried alive. She had to dig herself out and then she comes home where she feels safe and has a bunch of missiles explode around her. She had less than a day to overcome what happened to her on the Island. To me and you, we can deal with it because of our nature, but she isn’t wired like us. She doesn’t have an animal nature to take what happened away from her.”

Cain looks towards Lady April’s room “So, you’re saying we need to get someone to help her with what she has been through?”

“Yes, but it needs to be someone she trust. Remember, she won’t allow any one she doesn’t trust inside her head.”

“I know. I remembered when she blocked me. It was like hitting a concrete wall.” Cain remembered the last time he tried to enter her mind.

“Also, whoever we get has to be approved by Lady April as well. She’s become more protected of Amy since the attack.”

“I’ll call my sister-in-law Clair and see if she will be willing to come and help Amy. She’s got experience in dealing with Were’s who have been
tortured and abused in their clans.”

“Clair? You mean the good looking wife of the Chattan clan, Alpha? She is your is your sister-in-law?”

“Yep, she’s my sister-in-law. Her husband is my brother. Both of them have ego’s that could fill this room.” Cain knew his brother rather well.

“I had a brother like that, but the HSL killed him.” Troy misses his older brother, but at least his little sister was still around.

She had done good for herself by marrying a normal person who didn’t have a problem with her being Were.

“Let me see if Clair will come and help Amy. Lady April won’t have a problem with her helping her daughter.”

Cain and Troy head towards his office to call his brother’s clan.

Chattan Clan’s Mansion:
Jessica was doing her daily dusting of the house when she hears the phone ring. She pulls the phone from her apron pocket.

“Jones resident, Jessica speaking. How can I help you?”

“Jessica, it’s Alpha Cain of the Montana Pride. Can you put your Mistress on please?”

“I’m sorry Alpha Cain, but my Mistress is at the salon right now. She won’t be home till later this afternoon. Would you like for me to have her return your call?”

“Yes, please Jessica. Is your Master around?” Cain figures Clair would be out.

“He’s out by the pool Alpha Cain. Would you like for me to get him?”

“Yes, please.”

Jessica walks outside and over to the pool where her Master was laying out sunning himself in the nude.

“Excuse me Master, Alpha Cain is on the phone and would like to talk with you.” She hands the phone to Neil.

Neil accepts the phone “hey little brother. What trouble are you in this time?”

“None, I was trying to reach your wife, because I need her to help my adopted niece?”

“Did Lady April adopt a child?”

“Yes. She adopted a young teenager and recently she’s been involved in some bad situations.”

“Oh? Maybe I should come out and meet my new niece.” Neil sends Jessica on her way.

He knew she would stand by his side till he sent her away.

“You’re welcome to come out here any time big brother.”

“I might take you up on your offer, little brother.”

“I hope you will Neil. Why don’t you come with your wife when she comes out here to help your niece.”

“Alright. I’m going to let you go Cain. One of my pride just showed up at the house.”

Jessica had escorted Ava and her wife Courtney to Neil. Jessica knew that her Master wanted to talk to Ava.

“Okay, bye Neil.” Cain disconnect from neil.

Cain’s place:
“Neil and his wife Clair might come out here. I still need to talk to Clair.” Cain was looking towards Troy.

“Do you think she’ll help?”

“She will. Clair may act like a stuck-up snob, but she does have a heart of gold.”

“If you say so.” Troy just smirks as he leaves Cain’s office.

Clair looks at the nude young girl as she sat Indian style in front of her on the floor in Amy’s bedroom. Clair had peeked of Amy’s aura and could see black spots in several places on it. One was near her heart, the other was near her mind. There were smaller one’s scatter
throughout her aura. When Clair and Neil had arrived with their servant Jessica early in the morning, Lady April had shown her where her new daughter Amy was meditating. Lady April had informed Clair that Amy has been in a meditative trance for at least a day so far since her break down.

Clair takes a deep breath and could smell her sister-in-law scent clearly on the girl. As for the scent of the girl herself, there really wasn’t one to be detected.

“Jessica, tell me what you smell coming off Amy.”

“Yes Mistress.” Jessica changes into her hybrid form and approaches Amy.

She could smell Lady April scent clearly on the girl, but she wasn’t picking up a scent from the girl herself. She could smell sandalwood, frankincense and myrrh incense cling to Amy. She could feel that there was a protective energy surrounding Amy’s body.

“I smell Lady April’s scent covering her body and I can smell the incense she has been burning cling to her body, but I can’t detect a scent of her own. It’s like it’s not there, Mistress.”

Jessica was a cougar and she couldn’t detect Amy’s personal scent. The incense that surrounded Amy’s body was a little overwhelming, but there should had been sort of her own scent coming from her. Jessica tries to get closer to Amy’s skin to get a better smell. The next thing she knows, she felt herself grabbed and sent flying across the room from Amy. Amy had sprung to her feet from her sitting position and was ready to defend herself.

Clair walks over to Jessica and helps her up off the floor. Jessica had turned back into her human form after the impact of her body hitting the door into Amy’s bedroom.

“Calm down Amy. We’re family and I was asked by your mother to help you.” Clair could tell right away that this teenager was better trained then even Tabitha.

She could see that this person has had extensive Martial Arts training.

“My name is Clair Jones and I’m your Aunt. The young lady you sent flying across the room and into your bedroom door, is my servant Jessica.”

Amy just stood there watching Clair.

“You can trust her kitten.”

Amy heard her mother’s voice in her head.

Amy signs to Clair.

Clair just smiles “Yes, I know how to interpret sign language or I can talk to you mentally.”

The last part Amy heard in her head.

“Now, sit back down and relax. Please.” Clair watches Amy to see if she would.

“Jessica, go and get my floor pillow out of the car please.” Clair hadn’t taken her eyes off Amy when she spoke.

“Yes Mistress.” Jessica walks out of the room still naked and down to the car they had arrived in.

Jessica retrieves her Mistress floor pillow and a few other things she knew her Mistress will need. She heads back inside and up to Amy’s
room with the floor pillow and the other items she knew Clair would need or want. Jessica doesn’t stop to knock on the door. She just walks into Amy’s bedroom.

Amy’s Bedroom:
Clair sits on the corner of Amy’s bed while she waited for Jessica to return. She notices all the stuff animal and trinkets on the bed and on shelves. There weren’t any posters or fashion magazines lying about, like you would find in most typical teenage girl rooms. She had a make-up table, but it didn’t look like she used it a lot.

“Amy, how many different styles of Martial arts do you know?”

“All of them. I was taught from the age I could walk in ever style of Martial Arts.” Amy couldn’t remember a time she wasn’t learning how to fight sand kill supernatural.

“Why did you come to this Pride?”

“Because, this felt like home to me. Plus, I owe them for all the bad things I did.”

“Why did you become Lady April’s daughter?” Clair could feel the truth in Amy’s words. She was a truth seeker.

“Because she was kind to me and didn’t hold what was done to her first daughter against me. I was never a killer like some members of my team. Plus, I never knew what it was like to have a parent. I never knew what it was like to be loved and cared for. All I ever was to the HSL, was a weapon. Nothing else, just a weapon.”

Clair had been told Amy’s past by Lady April.

“Before Jessica comes back in here. I need to have your permission to scan your thoughts. Your mother warned me what would happen if you take my scan the wrong way.” Lady April warned Clair not to go forcing herself inside Amy’s head, without her permission. She wouldn’t like what Amy will do to her.

“You may poke around inside my head, but I warn you. If there is some place I don’t want you to be. I can block you.” Amy didn’t know if there was or not, but knew she could keep any one out, except her mother.

“My dear niece, I promise not to go somewhere in your mind that you don’t want me to.” Clair looks towards the door as Jessica comes walking back in with the floor pillow and a few other things.

Jessica goes about setting up an area for Clair to sit and for Amy to lie down.

“Alright Amy, I want you to come over here and lie down please.”

Amy gets up and walks over and lie down on the floor pillows Jessica had set-up for her.

“Now close your eyes and let yourself relax. Clear everything from your mind and slowly breath in through your nose and out through your mouth.”

Amy slowly starts to relax and soon she is under and in a meditative trance. Clair starts to enter Amy’s mind, but as her cat. It could feel and
see everything Amy has experience. Clair couldn’t believe what the HSL had done to this poor girl. She continues to experience everything Amy has. When she gets to where Amy was attacked on the island and having the roof dropped on top of her. She could feel how scared Amy felt that she would never get back to her family. She saw and felt how Amy had to summon up the strength to get herself out of there. Then when the missiles started striking around her and exploding. She was so scared and frighten. When the explosions from the missiles burned her skin, and sucked the air from her body. She felt she was never going to see her mother ever again.

Clair could feel her pain and fear so strongly, she was being overwhelmed from it. She was starting to lose herself in the experience.

“Mistress, it’s not real Mistress.” Jessica kisses Clair on the lips and finally manages to break Clair free from the nightmare.

“Thank you, Jessica.” Clair was shocked all the way down to her soul.

Lady April had been reading down in the library when she felt Amy’s fears. She had peeked and discover her Sister-in-law was inside Amy’s mind. She stayed out as much as she could, so Clair wouldn’t discover that Amy had called to her.

Clair glances down at Amy’s prone body “you, young lady might be the most dangerous fighter around, but you are also the most fragile as well.”

“Is she who you thought she was Mistress?” Jessica was looking at Amy’s unconscious form.

“Yes, she is Jessica. She was trained to be the most lethal fighter against us, but she is also the most fragile. Her mental state right now is delicate. She doesn’t want to lose what she has gained so far.”

“Will you be able to heal her, Mistress?” Jessica couldn’t believe someone would do something like that with someone so young.

She remembered the abuse she got when she was young and how it had broken her. It had taken a long time to recover from it and she still
didn’t trust herself. She needed the life and love her leaders gave her.

“I should be able to help her Jessica, but it will take time to undo some of the damage done to her.” Clair brushes some of Amy’s white hair aside.

This teenage girl was her niece now and that meant she would do everything she can for her.

Amy waits patiently for the tractor trailer that belonged to the HSl to drive by her location. They had gotten intel on a group of capture supernaturals being transported tonight at 2000hrs on this route. Her and a couple of warriors were waiting to ambush the security transport that was guarding the transport. Her aunt had gotten her through the trauma she was experiencing. Troy and her Uncle Cain had gotten her back into her normal fighting shape.

She waits and watches as 2000hrs comes by and spots the security escort coming towards their location. She picks up the spear she brought with her and take aim. She waits and when the vehicle gets closer, she throws the spear at the driver and through the passenger. She moves immediately with the other Were’s and runs as fast as she can towards the tractor and lunges on to the driver side.

She puts her closed fist through the glass window and connecting with the driver. She knocks the driver out. The security personnel riding up front tries to shoot her with his gun, but she keeps the driver between them.

“Hurry up and get up here Troy. I don’t know how to drive a semi.” Amy sent her thoughts towards Troy.

“Take it easy, cub. I’ll be with you in just a second.” Troy could see Amy hanging onto the side of the Tractor trailer hanging outside on the driver side trying to steer the vehicle.

Amy kept trying to keep the tractor trailer straight, while avoiding the passenger shooting at her. She shields herself with the body of the driver as she tries to keep the vehicle from flipping over.

“Will you hurry up, Troy?” Amy didn’t know how much longer she could keep the vehicle straight.

Troy drops on the passenger side and yanks the passenger out and slides in to take control.

“Get rid of that body, Amy.” Troy grabs the steering wheel to keep the semi from flipping.

Amy yanks the dead body out of the cab and tosses it on the road way, while holding on with one arm. She looks inside and notices Troy sitting there in his hybrid form steering the tractor trailer.

“I wish I had a camera to take a picture of this.” Amy had a smile on her face as she held onto the side as Troy drove the tractor trailer back to their staging area.

Amy looks back and notices the other warriors that had come with them. They were either hanging off the trailer part with their claws dug into the trailer or riding on top of the trailer. She just shakes her head as she held on.

They finally arrived back at the staging area. Troy pulls the semi to a spot where people could be off loaded with help. She jumps down and walks to the back and stands back with her Uncle as two enforcers opens the trailer doors. The first thing they see are a set of man size cages with a walk way between them. A set of mobile steps are brought over as Amy and Cain walk up the steps and inside.

Cain shakes his head as he notices how the shifters have collars around their necks with bags hooks to the collar. There was a young girl that had to be about six years old in a small cage. She looked to be in bad shape.

Amy recognizes the young girl and pulls one of her sai’s out. She uses it to pop the cage door open. She carefully lifts the girl out.
Cain spots that she has a broken leg and the bone was sticking through the skin.

Amy runs out of the back of the trailer and takes her to one of the pack healers to be healed. Amy stays by the young girl as the pack healer fixes her broken leg. Cain comes walking up with Lady April by his side.

“Do you know her sweetie?” Lady April looks towards her daughter.

“Yes ma’am. I let her parents escape me when I was sent to hunt them down. I knew where they were and peeked in when I could.” She brushes some of the girls matted hair aside.

“Do we know if her parents were aboard the trailer?” Lady April directs the questions towards her daughter and Cain.

“I didn’t see them, mom.” Amy continued to hold the little girls hand.

“I don’t know sis. Amy would spot them before I would. She seems to know the family.” Cain looks over towards his niece and notices how she wouldn’t let go of the little girl’s hand.

The pack healer tries to get Amy to let go, but she doesn’t budge. The pack healer knows from experience that the only three people who can make her do what they want, is her mother, Cain and Lady Joyce.

Once the pack healer is done helping the girl. Amy picks her up and carries her. She holds the little girl close to her body.

“You might have another daughter, April.” Cain and April could see how protective Amy was of the girl.

Cain supervises the removal of the rest of the prisoners. He makes sure their needs are taken care of. He had watched as Amy and Lady April went back to the vehicle she had arrived in with her mother earlier.

“Let me hold her, sweetie.” Lady April transfers the little girl from Amy’s arms into hers.

Amy just looks at her mother to see if she would want a normal girl for a daughter.

Lady April looks at her daughter “what type of Were are her parents?”

“Her father is a wolf and her mother is a Fae/Tiger hybrid.” Amy remembered the first time she met the little girl’s mother.

Her mother had sneaked up on her without her knowing. Once the two of them talked, she promised to keep their location quiet. She also promises should she come across her daughter and she was captured by the HSL. She would do all in power to free her. She knew that her daughter was normal.

Once they get back to the mansion, Lady April with Amy’s help. Gives the little girl a bath and once she is clean. Amy puts one of nightgowns on her to sleep in.

Lady April puts the little girl in Amy’s bedroom and let her sleep on Amy’s bed. After Amy and Lady April back out of her bedroom. Lady April turns to look at her daughter.

“Why do you feel so strongly about this young girl?”

“I made a promise to her mother. I promise I would look after her if something should happen to her mother. If she is here with us, then something has happened to her parents.” Amy lets her mother see the memory and when she made the promise.

Lady April just hugs her daughter and now understood everything. She’ll talk with Cain and let him know that she’ll adopt the little girl as her own.

Amy had sneaked out of the mansion early in the morning. She left a note telling her mother where she was going and needed to go along. She had her old suit on from her days with HSL. She had brought her sai’s with her. She wanted to see what happened to the little girl’s parents. She moved quickly and quietly towards the log cabin they lived in. It was on the Canadian border and in Glacier National Park.

Amy stops when she gets close and approached with caution. She could tell a HSL team had been through her. Whoever, they sent to capture the couple and their daughter, did a piss poor job. All the bodies had been removes from the site, but she could still piece together what happened. They took her the husband down first with several shots from a shotgun filled with solid shot silver slugs.

She pries several of them from a tree that had been hit. She puts them in a pouch on her web belt. She walks around and finds where they killed the little girls mother at. Even though the girl’s mother had Were blood in her, she was still affected by cold iron like all elves. She picks up several bullets that had been made of cold iron and add those to her pouch.

The log cabin they had lived in, had been burned to the ground. The truck and snowmobiles were missing. Amy moves around the ruins of the log cabin, till she finds the spot that Fable had shown her. She closes her fist and concentrate her chi into her punch as she shatters the door of the hidden safe. Fable had shown her the safe and said should anything happen to her, she was to come and take this back to their child.
Inside the safe were several photo albums and other books. There were things from where Fable came from other items that were valuable inside. She packs everything up in the backpack she brought with her. She looks around to see if she could find their bodies, but they were gone. Amy wonders where the HSL would take their bodies? She knew where most of the research labs were in this area, but they could have constructed another one after her defection.

She heads towards the nearest one she knew about and found it empty. She heads to the next nearest one and found that one empty as well.

She checks a few more and finally found one that was still active. It was in a known storage unit company located behind a Home Depot.

She waits till it gets dark before breaking in. She tries the security code that security was given to be able to access everything. She shakes her head as she walks inside. Amy couldn’t believe they left the security by-pass code as it was. She spots several cameras and smashes them. She didn’t care that they knew she was here. She was going to make them pay for what they did to her friends.

The few guards on duty, she took out without breaking a sweat. She uses a nerve strike to the back of their necks and make them drop like a rag doll. She locates the medical labs and checked in there and found her friends bodies dissected on the table. She looks in the cold chambers to see what other bodies were in there and couldn’t believe what she finds. There were bodies of children, men, women and creatures she hasn’t seen before.

She pulls the bodies out and throw alcohol and a flare to start the fire. She hears the security alarms going off as she pulls her sai’s and start facing off against the other security guards at the place. She let’s her anger raise to the surface and overcome her as she starts cutting down people.

Montana Pack Mansion:
Lady April was watching over the little girl in the bedroom that Cain had given her, when she felt Amy’s anger. It had been strong, and she had never felt anything like it before; except when she first entered Amy’s mind. That anger had been directed towards the HSL for lying to her. This anger was directed towards what she was seeing and what had been done. Lady April felt as Amy’s anger took control of her and put her in a full killing rage. She tries to block the link she had with her daughter, but Amy’s anger was just too strong. She stumbles towards the bedroom door and out into the hallway. She tries to contact Cain through her pack link, but she couldn’t contact Cain.

“Cain! Cain!” Lady April stumbles towards the wing where his room was located.

Cain was coming up from the kitchen when heard his sister-in-law call for him. He rushes upstairs towards her. He notices that she was using the wall for support. He could see the pain on her face. He rushes over towards her.

“April, what’s wrong?” He puts his arms under her arms to support her body.

“It’s Amy. She has gone berserk with rage. She is letting her rage rule her.” Lady April tries to fight through the anger to reach her daughter, but she couldn’t get through to her.

“Do you know where she is right now, April?” Cain could feel Amy’s anger now as he touched April. He uses the power he gets from the pack to shield April, but he knew it wasn’t going to help much. April had a direct link to Amy, because she couldn’t speak.

“Yes, I know where she is.” She lets Cain see it in her mind. She was fighting to keep Amy’s anger from over taking her.

Cain helps April to the study and let her get comfortable. He runs out of the house and changes into his animal form and runs towards Amy’s location. Troy joins him in his animal form. The two of them run all out towards Amy’s location.

HSL Research Lab:
The security guards on duty had called for reinforcement when they realized who they were dealing with. None of them had ever seen agent 345 this pissed and out of control before. The guards that had gone against her, she ripped apart with her Sai’s. The weapons they had tried shooting her with, the bullets had stopped before they even hit her. They had lobed grenades and knockout gas at her and she blew them off like they were nothing. They tried hiding behind reinforced doors and she burst through them within two to three punches. She literally shattered the doors to little tiny pieces.

When the reinforcements showed up, she tore into them with her sai’s and her bare hands. They tried everything they could to kill or capture her, but nothing was working. They had sent over a hundred-additional people, including a few white witches to contain her with magic. They managed to slow her down, but she used her sai’s to disembowel them.

When Troy and Cain show up, they see Amy fighting ten men in medieval armor with white cloth coverings. She blocks their attacks and shove her sai’s through one guys medieval armor like it was tissue paper and rips him in half.

Troy and Cain couldn’t believe what they were seeing. The sweet demure teenage girl they knew and loved, had been replace with a ravaged animal. They had never seen Amy this berserk or out of control before.

“I wonder what did this to her?” Troy watches as she yanks the head off a knight.

He saw her just yank his head off like it was nothing with her bare hands.

“I don’t know, but we need to calm her down.” Cain saw a Knight throw a spear at her. She grabs it midflight and flings it back towards him.

The two of them just watches as she dispatches the last reminding Knights. She was covered in blood from head to toe and was looking around for something to kill. She locks her sights on the Lion and Tiger standing and watching her. She walks towards them wondering if they were going to attack her.

Cain changes form to his hybrid form and looks directly at Amy.

“STOP!”

Amy heard the mental voice in her head, but ignored it. She kept walking towards them and had her Sai’s ready to attack.

Cain could feel the anger inside Amy and knew he had to make her get it under control. He summons his power and send it towards her.

“I SAID STOP!” He put his power behind his words and she stopped in mid-step.

Amy tries fighting the power holding her, but it was stronger than her. Something inside of her responded to the power she felt.

“CALM DOWN AMY.” Cain approaches her slowly. He didn’t know if her link to her mother, was allowing his power to influence her.

Amy just looks at Cain in his hybrid form and wanted to fight his control, but she couldn’t. She takes several deep breathes and tries to center herself, but she just couldn’t get her anger under control. She kept trying, but her anger didn’t want to be control.

“MOM, HELP ME!”

Lady April felt Amy’s mental scream for help. She concentrates on her daughter’s emotions and this time she could get inside Amy’s head. She wraps her loving arms around her baby and help her get her temper under control. It was a fight, but with Cain compiling her to get her anger under control, it helped Amy to do it with her mother’s help.

Amy’s body just drops like a rag doll right where she was standing.

Cain walks over and picks her up, along with her backpack.

“Let’s get her home.” Cain secures Amy’s unconscious body to Troy’s animal form and changes back into his animal.

By the time they get back they find Lady April waiting for them.

“How is she?” April walks over to Troy’s and undo the straps holding her on.

“She’s out of it. Her anger was fueling her stamina. Once we got her to calm down, she dropped like a ragged doll.” Cain changes from his animal form and into his human form.

“Let’s get her inside and cleaned up.” Cain takes Amy inside the mansion and up to her bedroom.

Once Lady April gets Amy undressed and cleaned up. She tucks her into bed.

“April go look after your other daughter. I’ll stay here with Amy.” Joyce had come in when she heard what happened.

“Thank you, sis.” Lady April looks at Amy, before she heads towards her second daughters room.

Lady April watches as the little girl that Amy had saved wakes-up. Lady Joyce was watching over her oldest as she slept.

“Your safe now little one. My daughter brought you to us.”

Arya looks at the middle age woman sitting next to the bed. She could tell right away what she was. She knew that this woman was a Were-Tiger. She could also smell another scent in the bed she was sleeping in. She recognized the scent of the white hair teenage girl that had freed her.

“Where is Amy?” Arya wanted to thank Amy for rescuing her.

“She’s asleep in my bedroom. Her aunt is watching over her.” Lady April could tell the little girl was concerned about Amy.

“Can I see her, please?” Arya wanted to see Amy and make sure she was okay.

“Yes, you can. If you don’t mind me asking. What is your name?” That was the one thing Lady April didn’t know. Amy never told her what the girl’s name was.

“It’s Arya Hagen. I’m named after my aunt in Norway.” Arya wouldn’t mind seeing her aunt.

“Well Arya, it’s nice to meet you.” April holds her hand out for Arya to take.

Arya takes Lady April’s hand and is helped off the bed. At first, Arya was a little unsure about walking. One of her jailer had broken her leg when she kicked him in his manhood. She puts her full weight on her leg and nothing bad happened.

Lady April had noticed how cautious Arya was being about the leg that had been broken.

“The pack healer, healed your broken leg.” Lady April escorts Arya to her bedroom where Amy was sounds asleep.

She was being watched over by Lady Joyce who was knitting. Lady Joyce looks up when she notices the young girl Amy saved and her sister walk in. She puts her knitting needles’ down.

“Well, hello. Who do we have here?” Lady Joyce was looking at the young brown hair girl that stood next to her sister.

“Hello, I’m Arya Hagen. Is Amy alright?” Arya was looking over towards Amy as she slept.

“She’s fine, Arya. She’s just exhausted from fighting. She went after the people who hurt you and your family.” Lady Joyce wasn’t going to lie to Arya.

Arya lets go of Lady April’s hand and walks over towards the bed. She remembers seeing Amy when she was younger and the little gifts, she would bring for her. She grabs her hand hold it. She feels Amy squeeze her hand as she held hers.

Lady April and Lady Joyce couldn’t believe that Amy had responded to Arya’s touched. They watch as she slowly opens her eyes and look towards Arya. A smile appears on her face as Amy pulls Arya to her and holds her.

Arya snuggles close to her friend. She has known Amy since she was a baby. She always thought of Amy as her big sister. She knew there was nothing Amy wouldn’t do to protect her. She feels Amy wrap her arm around her and pull her close to her body. Arya lays her head on Amy’s right shoulder.

Lady April and Lady Joyce just stand next to the bed and shakes their heads. This is the first time they have seen Amy show this type of emotion. Even from the memories she shared with Lady April, none of this had been in them.

Lady April notices it was snowing heavily outside “looks like were getting a heavy snowfall.”

She walks over towards the window that faces outside. She could already tell that it was covering the ground fast. The flakes were big and huge as they fell from the sky.

“The kids will enjoy it. Come, lets go downstairs and let the little one’s sleep.” Lady Joyce had noticed that Arya had her eyes close and was
happy being next to Amy.

Lady Joyce and April head downstairs to grab a cup of tea. It was good that Arya and Amy knew each other and got along with one another.

“Amy said Arya is a normal. Did she say why?” Lady Joyce was curious.

“She didn’t explain why. I mean, it’s not uncommon for a child from a mix supernatural marriage to not be born with either parents abilities or
traits. She could still be turned into a Were by the virus we carry.” Lady April knew Victoria Brown had been born without any of her family supernatural traits.

Then, when she went hunting with her husband on their anniversary and was attacked by a Were-Wolf and turned into one. The only reason
she survived the changed, was because she was carrying the virus in a dormant state in her gene’s. Once the active virus entered her body from the bite, activated the dormant gene and turned her into a Were-Wolf.

“She may take after you, if you share your blood with her in a traditional Were adoption.” Lady Joyce had seen it happen before.

“True, but I will leave that decision to her.”

One of the house maids bring both ladies a cup of tea. She also brings them a tray with some finger sandwiches.

“My lady, how is the young lady doing?” Mia was curious

“She’s doing fine Mia. She’s upstairs laying next to Amy.” Lady Joyce liked Mia.

She was always attentive to who she was serving. She was also an extremely good baker. It was so sad that Mia’s birth mother had tried to kill her. If Troy hadn’t heard her screaming for help. She would had ended up dead like her siblings. Troy had found her being drown by her mother. He killed her mother after seeing her other siblings laying nearby on the floor, from being drowned. Troy took her in and raised her as his own daughter.

For the rest of the afternoon. They don’t see the girls, till around dinner time. Amy comes walking down and into the dining room in the night gown Joyce had put her in. Arya was right beside her, holding her hand as they walked into the dining room. Arya sits on one side on Lady
April, while Amy sat on the other side of her mother.

“How are you feeling Amy?” Cain was curious about her anger levels.

“Still a little angry, uncle.” Amy had her anger under control for now.

Arya looks at Amy “why are you angry?”

“Because of what the HSL and Hunter Organization did to our kind and the children….” Amy had to ball her fist and take a deep breath to control herself.

Lady April lays her hand on top of Amy and help her with her anger. She could tell that Amy was ready to let her anger get the better of her. She wonders if Amy will be able to get her anger back under control.

“I will mom. It is just taking me longer then normal, since I have allowed myself to feel the anger.” Amy knew she had to work on her anger issues, before they overwhelmed her again and throw her into a berserker rage.

After dinner, everyone retires to the living room and enjoy the quietness. Lady April changes her form and lays down on the thick Persian rug.
Arya and Amy lay down next to Lady April and rest their heads on her fur belly. Arya always liked lying next to her mother in her animal form.
She loved how soft her fur was. Amy has grown fond of laying next to her adopted mother in her Tiger form.

Arya and Amy just stay by their mother enjoying the fire.

Amy walks through the portal Sparrow made for her back at Cassandra’s and Vince’s house. She was tired and ready to crawl into bed. It was still early morning in Montana. It had been at 10’o clock or so when they fought everyone in Charlottesville, VA.

“Did everything go alright?” Cain had felt magic being used in the house and went downstairs to investigate.

Amy looks over towards her uncle “everything went fine.”

Cain saw the blood on Amy and could tell from the smell that it was contaminated. He wonders what she fought.

“Come on, let’s get you a bath before your mother sees’s you covered in blood.” He escorts Amy up to her bedroom and fixes a bath for her.

“Thanks, Uncle Cain.” Amy lowers herself down into the very hot water and completely submerges herself. She holds her breath for a while letting the water soak into her pores. After six minutes, she resurfaces and exhales.

“I thought you had drowned.” Cain had been watching his niece and was a little worried when she didn’t resurface for a few minutes.

“Nope, I can hold my breath for thirty minutes.” Amy brushes some of her wet hair out of her face.

“Boy, the HSL really did engineer you. Professional peal drivers and a few supernaturals can only hold their breath for ten to twenty minutes.”

“I was trained to go after Were’s that like the water.” Amy puts some shampoo on her head and washes her hair several times.

“Here, let me help you.” Cain washes Amy’s hair for her.

“Thanks, Uncle Cain.”

“You’re welcome, sweetheart.” Cain holds open a towel for Amy when she is ready to get out of the tub.

“I’ll let your mother know you are back. I think your little sister is going to be happy that you are.” Cain tucks Amy into bed.

“Thanks, Uncle Cain.” Amy snuggles down under the covers and lets the exhaustion she has been holding back take her under.

Cain steps out of Amy’s bedroom and spots April standing in the hallway.

“Is she safely back?”

“Yes, she’s back and unharmed. She was covered in blood when she returned. I didn’t ask her what happened or why she was covered in blood. I just helped her with her bath and put her to bed.”

April walks pass him and peeks inside Amy’s bedroom. She could hear Amy’s shallow breathing and knew she was going to be out of it for a while.

“You said she was covered in blood?” April shuts Amy’s bedroom door gently, so not to wake her.

“Yes, and it smelled like it was tinted.” The clothes she was wearing when she arrived, is in the trash in her bathroom.

“I wonder what she was fighting.” Lady April and Cain head downstairs and towards the dining room.

“There must have been a lot of them because she had whelps and bite marks on her body. She had no skin missing, but she looked like she was attacked by a lot of hungry critters.” Cain had seen on Amy’s body that was still healing.

That was another reason she was so tired. Her fast healing burned up a lot of her energy. They sit down and enjoy a nice cup of coffee.

Mia brings in a huge tray of homemade cinnamon rolls. She still had four more platters of them in the kitchen to bring out.

“Good morning Lady April and Alpha Cain.” As she set the first ray of buns near them.

Cain gives her a look “you know you don’t have to call me Alpha, Mia. You’re family.”

Mia just gives him a playful smile as she heads back to the kitchen for the rest of the trays of buns. She brings the second set and sets it mid-way of the table.

“Look who I found on my way here?” Lady Joyce had seen Arya heading towards the dining room and picked her up.

Arya didn’t mind Lady Joyce picking her up and carrying her. She felt comfortable around everyone. She was used to Were’s because her mother was one. She wonders how Amy was. She left two days ago to help a bunch of witches with a problem.

Lady Joyce puts Arya in the chair next to Lady April.

“Mia made your favorite breakfast today, Arya.” Lady April cuts a bun for Arya and puts it in front of her.

“Thanks, mom.” Arya takes a piece of it and eats it.

Her fingers were sticky from the glazed covering it. She licks her fingers after takes another bite of the bun.

“Mom, when is Amy coming home?” Arya looks at Lady April with some glazed covering her lips and face.

Lady April just smiles at her younger daughter and clean her face with a wet napkin.

“She’s already back and upstairs in her bedroom asleep. I suggest you leave her alone for a few hours, so she can get some rest in.”

“I will mom.” Arya was happy Amy was back home.

Arya manages to eat three of the huge buns. Her face and hands were covered in frosting. She excuses herself and goes to the downstairs bathroom to clean up.

When Arya is done. She sneaks upstairs to check on Amy. She quietly opens her bedroom door and peeks inside. She could hear Amy
sleeping soundly.

Arya closes Amy’s bedroom door quietly and head downstairs to the training gym to practice.

Amy stretches in bed when she wakes up later in the afternoon. She was so tired when she got home from helping Cassandra and Angela. She fought a whole group of ruby enhanced druggies. She hadn’t noticed before, but as she gets out of bed. Her joints felt stiff and her muscles were protesting.

She sits on the side of her bed trying to adjust to the pain and stiffness she was feeling. She doesn’t know if the stiffness and soreness she was feeling were caused by the tinted saliva from all the ruby druggies that had bitten and thorn her flesh.

She manages to stand up slowly and painfully makes her way to her bedroom door. Her body was protesting with every step and movement she took. She has never felt like this before. Her body should have flushed any toxins she got out of her system by now. The pain was starting to become too much for her as she used her door to support herself.

"Mom, can you come and take me down to the pack healer please?” Amy mentally sends to her Lady April.

Lady April was going over some reports when she felt Amy contact her. She was curious why she needed the pack doctor.

“What’s wrong, Amy?”

“Pain, mom. Can barely move.”

“I’ll get your aunt to come up and take a look at you.” Lady April sends a mental message to her sister Joyce.

Joyce was in the study with Cain taking care of pack business when she receives a mental message.

“Sis, can you meet me up in Amy’s bedroom, please?”

“What’s wrong with her?”

“Don’t know. All she said is that she is experiencing extreme pain. I can feel her discomfort through our mental link.”

“I’ll meet you up in Amy’s bedroom.” Lady April and Joyce arrive at the same time at Amy’s bedroom door.

“What do you think is affecting her?”

“Don’t know, but I hope it is something we can fix.” Lady April opens Amy’s door and spots her using her wall for support. She rushes towards
Amy. She could see the pain Amy was experiencing in her facial features.

Amy was doing everything she could to keep the pain she was experiencing from affecting her. All her joints were refusing to cooperate with her commands. Her muscles were acting the same way and didn’t want to respond to her.

Lady Joyce walks over to Amy and lay her hand on her exposed shoulder. She sends her power into Amy’s body to discover what was making her feel ill? As her power flows throughout Amy’s body. It met some resistance and it wasn’t coming from Amy. Joyce could feel that whatever was affecting Amy, was resisting her power as well. It was extremely strong and was coursing through Amy’s veins.

Joyce removes her hand from Amy’s shoulder and looks into Amy’s eyes. She could see traces of redness found in most ruby user’s eyes.

“Amy, how much ruby were you exposed to?”

“I fought over a hundred people jacked up on ruby.”

Lady April glances towards her sister “you think ruby is affecting her?”

“It’s a modified version of it. Something was added to it and because she was exposed to a large amount of the tainted ruby. It’s affecting her
body’s natural healing capability and resisting my healing energies.”

“How is that possible? We know ruby is made from vampire blood. The older the vampire, the more potent it is and the stronger the user becomes.”

“I don’t know sis, but there is one person who does know, Crazy Freddy. He’s been dealing with illegal drugs for a while.”

April walks over to Amy and carefully walk her back to her bed. She was using her abilities to try and block the pain.

“Lay back down, Amy.” She carefully lays Amy back down in her bed.

The blurriness Amy was experiencing was getting worse. She could only make out shadows now.

“Mom, I’m going blind.” Amy holds onto Lady April.

“It’s because of the ruby in you Amy. If we can find out what mixture they took, and you absorbed. We can counter it. I’m going to draw some of your blood and have it tested.” Joyce summons Mia to bring a few test tubes from the medical lab.

April fusses over Amy, trying to make her more comfortable. She could feel how much pain her daughter was suffering through.

“Amy, I’m going to put you in trance, till we figure out what is going on with you. I know how terrible the pain is.” April puts a mental block in
Amy’s mind to block the pain. Then she puts Amy into a deep trance, so her body can try to fight whatever was affecting her.

April looks towards her sister “do you have any idea of what is affecting her?”

“None.”

They hear a knock on the door before Mia opens the door. She notices Amy laying in her bed sounds asleep.

“Here are the test tubes you requested Mistress Joyce.” As Mia hands the test tubes to Lady Joyce.

“Thank you, Mia.” Joyce accepts them and goes about taking blood samples from Amy. They knew from experience; Amy’s blood didn’t follow the standard classifications.

“There, that should do it.” As Joyce looks at the blood level.

“Let me go and check her blood. I’ll send Victor to bring crazy Freddy back to the mansion.” Joyce knew Tielo was the best enforcer to send.
The man was a rare Were-White Lion. The only mated pair she knew of, were members of their pard.

“I feel sorry for crazy Freddy. Tielo isn’t someone to mess with.”

“I know, that’s why Troy likes him so much. He’s been a real asset to our pard. Just as Amy has been. She has retrained our enforcers to be deadly.”

“I just can’t get over the fact that the HSL trained her to be so deadly.” Lady April brushes aside a lock of Amy’s white hair.

“Me neither.”

A couple of minutes later. Lady Joyce heads down to the medical lab, while April heads down to the gym to check on Arya. She knew Arya wanted to talk with her big sister.

When she steps out of the elevator, she spots Arya training with Erika. Erika looked to be correcting her form. She just stands back and watches Erika put Arya through several katas.

Troy’s Office:
Troy was reading the report he got from the enforcers that had worked last night. They had broken up several bar fights and had to rush a forced turned Were to a Sanctuary center. According to the report that was filled out by Markus Norewood. He and his partner, enforcer Voss came across the girl laying out in the middle of the road while doing their patrol.

According to the events, she had been found nude with needle marks at all the major pressure points and joints on her body. There were needle marks going around the top of her head and neck. He glances at the pictures Markus had printed out to go with the report.

Troy takes a magnifying glass to take a closer look at the picture. The girl looked to be in her teens and was nothing, but skin and bones. She looked like she had been experimented on from the marks on her skin and joints.

As he is looking at the pictures, there is a knock on his office door.

“Enter!”

Lady Joyce heard Troy giving his permission to enter. She didn’t need it, because she was an Alpha, but she gave him the same respect she would want. When she walks in, she notices him looking at some pictures. One was still in his hand.

Troy looks up from the picture to see who just entered. He notices that it was Lady Joyce.

“Joyce, what can I do for you?” He sets the picture back down on his desk.

“I have a task for Tielo. I need for him to find and bring in crazy Freddy.” Joyce stops in front of Troy’s desk.

“If you don’t mind me asking, Joyce. Why do you need crazy Freddy?”

“Amy has been infected by tainted Ruby from helping Cassandra and her daughter. She defended herself from a hundred druggies hooked on ruby. She became infected from the numerous bites marks that are on her body. Whatever mixture the Russian Magi Bogdan gave the ruby users is affecting her and interfering with my healing ability.”

“And your hoping crazy Freddy might be able to identify what the magi did to it?” Troy could see the logic in that.

“I’ll get Tielo on it right away. It’s hard to believe anything could bring Amy down. She’s too good to be brought down by a bug. Oh, Tielo made the rank of investigator now.”

“That’s good to hear. He deserves the new rank. As for Amy, she’s tough and will survive.” Joyce will have to remember to tell Cain when she gets back.

“So, how are things going otherwise?” Joyce normally read the security report, but she still liked hearing it first hand from Troy.

“I’m afraid we might have either a secret lab conducting experiments or a government black Op’s site conducting experiments.”

“What type of experiments?”

“Forced Were experiments.” Troy picks the report up and hands it to Joyce.

Joyce accepts the report and reads what happened. She wasn’t liking what she was reading so far. She looks up from the report and at Troy.

“Has there been any others like this girl found?”

“Not that I know of, but I have the trackers out seeing if they can find anything.”

“Keep me and Cain informed, please. If this is happening in our territory, we need to put an end to it.” Joyce didn’t like any illegal experimentation or force change to happen.

“Will do boss.” Troy knew he better put more people on this matter.

“Alright, let me know what you find out.” Joyce leaves and heads back down to the medical lab to run a test on Amy’s blood.

Victor and Tielo had been sent to find crazy Freddy. No one really knew where crazy Freddy lived. He had at one time been in the military during the Vietnam war. When he came back from the war, he had a hard time adjusting to being, a civilian again. Victor and Tielo knew they had their work cut out for them to find him.

They try his trailer out first. The place looked like someone else was staying with him. The place was too clean, even for him. It had a bunch of herbs and plants hanging down to dry. A few were finely crushed up in mason jars.

“Looks like he has someone else staying with him.” Tielo was curious who it was.

“From the smell of it, whatever it is, part avian and part human.” Victor had taken a deep breath to scent the area.

“Why do you say it’s part avian?” Tielo hadn’t picked that up.

“Because of this.” Victor had found a feather laying on the floor, sticking out from under the bed.

Tielo couldn’t believe it. The feather looked like it belonged to a dove.

“I wonder who that belong too?”

“Well, whoever it is or whatever it is, it is a female that is for sure.” Victor heads back outside to see if he can locate Crazy Freddy and the winged person that is with him.

Tielo follows behind him. They managed to find a scent that had to be at least a week old. They followed the scent and begin to move faster as they followed the scent.

“He’s heading towards Canada, through Glacier Park.” Victor looks back towards Tielo.

“Let me call Lady Joyce and tell her.” Tielo pulls his sate phone out and calls the manor house.

Manor House:
Lady Joyce was looking at Amy’s blood sample and was compared it to when she first came to live at the manor. She notices her blood had been changed from some sort of virus. Whatever made up the ruby was changing her blood with some type of unknown virus.

“We need to find crazy Freddy right away.”

Amber looks over towards her Alpha “do we know what type of virus?” As she walks over to look at the blood sample for herself.

“No, I have no idea,. All I do know is, it is changing Amy’s blood as fast as she heals.” Lady Joyce looks at her assistant as she examined Amy’s blood.

“Dam, your right, Alpha. Whatever infected Amy is changing her blood.” Amber looks up and over towards Joyce.

Joyce’s cell phone starts ringing. She takes it out and looks at the id. She notices it was Tielo calling her.

“Hello?”

“Alpha, crazy Freddy is heading towards the Canadian border. Do we have your permission to pursue?”

Lady Joyce tries to remember if there was any supernatural that claimed the area north of Montana. As far she knew, the only tribe or group was on the right-hand side of their area.

“Proceed with following him and if you run into any trouble. Call me or Cain right away.”

“Yes, Alpha.”

Victor and Tielo:
“Lady Joyce said to proceed with caution and if we run into any problem to call her or Cain.” Tielo puts his sat phone away.

“As far as I know, there isn’t any group that claims the area north of Montana. We own the whole state.” Victor knew the area pretty good.

“Lady Joyce said there was a group in the right-hand corner of the state.” Tielo changes into his hybrid form and waits for Victor.

Victor changes into his Hybrid form and leads the way with Tielo following behind him. Victor follows the path Freddy took “there’s a small group up in the right-hand corner that has taken sanctuary up there and is in the process of refurbishing an abandoned town as their own.”

“Cain is allowing this?”

“Yes, they aren’t very big and is being led by a friend of Cain’s.”

“Why don’t they just move down here?” Tielo didn’t like traveling far from the manor.

“Because they aren’t Were-Cats and they have other races with them. They also want to be left alone till the group feels safe. A few of them
are refugees from the HSL detection center.”

“Interesting. Well, we have a hike ahead of us. Let’s get moving.”

Victor leads them as they travel through the woods and follow a hidden path. A few times they had to avoid a bunch of normal people out jogging the paths. The rule was, they couldn’t be seen in their beast form.

It took them some time and when it started to get dark. They stopped for the night and camped out. Lucky for them, Tielo special ability allowed him to summon clothes. That way they wouldn’t have to stay in their hybrid form all night.

Victor forges for some food for them. After about an hour, he comes back with two rabbits and a few other edible plants.

“You know, we could have hunted down a deer or something.” Tielo’s had gotten a fire going and used his claws to make some wooden cups for them. He found a creek nearby that had clean water they could drink from.

Victor skinned the rabbits and put them on a spit to cook. He found some herbs while forging for the rabbits and use them to spice the rabbits.

“Where did you learn to camp like this?” Tielo knew he needed to learn how to forge.

“When I was first turned, I spent three years by myself in Alaska, getting uses to being a Were. It took me a while to adjust.” Victor found it hard after he was turned, because every time he got angry, it brought forth his animal.

“Did the person who turned you, helped you with your new status?”

“I killed the one that turned me. It happened while he was trying to kill me. It took a Were by the name of Edward to explain to me, what I had become. He stayed with me while I tried to figure out what I was in Alaska. After we came back, he went to be with his family and said if I ever need him, to let him know.” Victor knew Edward saved his life. At one time, he had thought about taking his own life.

When morning came around, the next day. They started back on their search. The trail ended near a path that went up into the mountains.

“How good of a climber are you?” Victor glances towards Tielo.

“I’m not very good, but my cat is. It shouldn’t be a problem with his help.” Tielo starts following Victor up a path.

After three hours, they come to a cave and go inside. It was where Freddy’s scent was leading to. Victor looked at the cave and could tell it wasn't made by nature. The walls were to smooth and glass like finish to them. As they went deeper, they find that it was furnished.

“I wonder who lives here?” Tielo was curious.

“I do and why are your trespassing?” Arial had spotted two unknown Were-cats entering her cave. Freddy was still out collecting some plants.

Victor and Tielo turn around when they hear a voice coming from behind them.

“We don’t mean to trespass ma’am, but we're looking for our Pride mate, crazy Freddy.” Victor looks at the winged individual standing before him. He had heard rumors, but he has never seen one before.

“Do you mean Freddy Deacon?” Arial watches both Weres.

“Yes ma’am, we mean Freddy Deacon. The niece of our Alpha is very sick, and we need his expertise in herbal medicine to see if he can come up with a cure for her.” Both men knew Freddy had a special talent when it came to herbal medicine.

“How sick is she?” Arial knew Were’s can heal themselves or can be healed from a pack healer.

“She can’t move at all. It’s taking everything she has to fight off the disease she has been infected with and to be honest, her mother who is the pack healer and her sister who is the Alpha’s mate can’t do anything for her.” Tielo was hoping this woman would tell them where Freddy was.

Arial closes her eyes and concentrates on Freddy. She sees him digging up some roots he can only get up on her mountain.

“He is nearby. I’ll take you to him.” She turns and exits the cave.

Victor and Tielo follow her further up the mountain, until they come to a plateau. They spot Freddy kneeling and digging up a strange looking plant.

“HEY FREDDY!” Tielo yells over towards him.

Freddy stops for a second and looks over where the voice came from. He knew the two Weres. One was Victor Warner and his partner Tielo Tabi. He knew both men and knew they would only come this far from home on orders from the Alpha.

“Why are you bothering me?” He shakes the dirt off the root he dug up.

“The Alpha needs your help. His niece is extremely sick and may die.” Victor walks over towards him. Arial and Tielo stayed back.

Arial knew Freddy didn’t like being surrounded by people. She knew he still suffered from some terrible event from his past and wouldn’t talk about it.

“Why does he need me and what is so terrible that Lady Joyce and Lady April can’t heal with their abilities?” Freddy both ladies were capable healers.

“Do you know Lady April’s adopted daughter?” Victor doesn’t know if Freddy has met her yet.

“I’ve heard rumors about her. She’s some sort of special agent the HSL created to combat supernatural creatures and then decided to submit
herself to Cain for her crimes.”

“That’s about right. However, the HSL lied to her about her origins and one of her own team members tried to rape her. She was adopted by
Lady April to be her daughter.” Victor didn’t want to go into too much detail about Amy. Cain was very protective of her.

“So, what type of disease has she contracted that magic can’t heal?” Freddy knew there wasn’t much magic couldn’t heal.

“She received wounds from fighting creatures that were heaped upon contaminated ruby. It was given to them by Russian magi by the name of Bogdan.” Victor didn’t know the magi, but from what he has learned. He was a nasty piece of work.

Freddy looks at Victor “I’ve heard of him. He deals in death and blood magic. If the contaminated ruby came from him, then it was full of blood magic. I don’t know what I can do for her, but I’ll see what can be done or recommend someone who can help her better.”

“Thank you, Freddy. If we leave now, we could get there by tomorrow morning if we travel at night.”

“We need to get there faster. Let me see if someone can help us.” He walks over towards Arial.

Arial watches as Freddy comes over to her. He starts speaking in a language neither Victor or Tielo heard of before.

“Uma lle nowa lle seler' eleyvn be nice faarea a' help lye a' get n'alaquel a' i' alpha's manison?”

“Amin can ask he`. Re normally, doesn't ve' leavien he`, nan' amin'll tul a yassen he`” Arial looks towards Victor and Tielo to see if they understood her.

“Can lle ask he`, saesa?”

“Feitha sinome.” Arial walks away from the group and start flapping her wings. She lifts off the ground and fly away.

Tielo looks towards Freddy “where is she off too?”

“Getting us a ride.” Freddy places the root in his bag.

After twenty minutes of waiting, Arial comes flying back accompanied by a golden eagle. When Arial lands, the Golden eagle changes form and a female figure with multi-color long straight hair and amber color eyes appears next to Arial.

“Wow!” Tielo was taken back by the woman.

His cat comes forward as a low purring sound rumbled in his throat. He tries to get his cat under control. He didn’t want to scare the woman off.

“Gentlemen, I would like you to meet my sister Faramir. She has agreed to fly the three of you home.” Arial had a smirk on her face.

“What do you mean by fly us home?” Victor and Tielo were both curious.

“She means guys, that Faramir is a shapeshifter and can assume the form of a large bird to carry us back.” Freddy has flown with Faramir before.

“What are you?” Victor looks at Faramir for an answer.

“Does that matter right now? We need to get back to the mansion as fast as possible and she is our best hope.” Freddy looks towards both men.

Tielo had his eyes glue on Faramir. Her scent was tickling his nostrils and his eyes had bled to his cat’s ones. He knew she was his mate.

Faramir looked at the two men standing with Freddy. This far up they should be shivering right now. Her eyes land on one of them. He had oriental features and from what she could tell, he was firmly built. He was smaller than his companion, but not by much. When he spoke,
something tingled inside of her. She knew the voice, but she has never met this man before.

“Won’t we be spotted in the air by satellites and planes?” Victor notices that Tielo was mesmerized by Faramir.

“No, our magic hides us from technology and from prying eyes. You won’t see us unless we want you too.” Arial notices how hard Tielo was staring at her sister.

Victor has seen the look on his friends face by other people who have run into their mates. He smirks as he shakes his friend gently.

“Snap out of it. We have a life to save.” Victor shakes Tielo to get his attention.

Tielo takes control of his emotions and concentrates on what he was doing. He couldn’t believe he found his mate and she was a different species.

“Let’s getting going.” Faramir steps away from everyone and turns into a huge white eagle.

“Wow!” As Victor watches as Faramir changes into a large bird. He wouldn’t want her coming after him in that form.

“Climb on her carefully.” Arial shows them where to climb on Faramir’s back.

Once they were safely on Faramir’s back, she starts running and jumps off the plateau and soar upwards into the air. Victor, Freddy, and Tielo held on tight with their legs as Faramir flew upwards. Arial was flying near her and was communicating with Freddy mentally on where they should fly.

“Bbbuuurrr!!” Victor was cold from being so high up. He might be a Were, but he wasn’t prepared for this.

Tielo was cold as well, but he was enjoying the flight. He could feel Faramir’s body move each time she flipped her wings. He wonders what else she could turn into.

A plane passes near them, that they could make out the name on the side of the plane. Arial stayed close to Faramir as she flew. She was there to catch anyone if they fell off and to lead the way.

It does take them long to get close to the mansion. Faramir lands a safe distance from the mansion and lets her passengers get off her back. She changes back to her human form. She felt exhausted flying in that form and carrying three. She ready to drop.

Tielo saw that Faramir was having a problem standing and rushes to her side. He catches her in his arms.

“I got you.” As he looks into her amber eyes.

Faramir looks up into Tielo’s eyes and froze. There weren’t human eyes looking back at her, but cat’s eyes. Normally, she would be scared of having a cat looking at her, but she felt safe in his arms.

“Thank you.”

“You’re welcome.” Tielo helps Faramir stand up. He would carry her to the mansion if she allowed him too. Instead, he stays close to her.

They get to the mansion and are meet by Cain and Lady Joyce. One of the enforcers out on patrol informed Cain they had a guest.

When they enter the mansion, Cain is standing in the main foyer. He has never met people with wings before. All he ever knew of them, were stories told to him by his father. They were myths among the different supernatural packs and pride.

“Welcome, I am Cain McGregor, and this is my wife Lady Joyce McGregor. Thank you for bringing my people home to us.”

“You are welcome, Mr. Cain. I am Arial, and this is my sister, Faramir.” Arial motions to her sister.

Cain looks at the other woman, but she doesn’t say anything. He also notices she is wingless. Where Arial had dove style wings, Faramir had known. He also notices how close Tielo is to Faramir.

“You need to forgive my sister. She doesn’t say much outside our community.” Arial knew Faramir didn’t like being around strangers. However, she did notice that she was letting the one named Tielo touch her.

“That is fine.” He looks towards Freddy

“Where is your niece Alpha?” Freddy wanted to see the patient himself.

“She’s this way, Mr. Deacon.” Lady Joyce escorts Freddy to Amy’s bedroom.

“Cain looks at the others “guest rooms are being prepared for you while you’re here.” Cain notices Mira walking up to him.

“Thank you, Alpha Cain.” Arial knew Cain’s reputation.

“Your welcome, this my head house manager, Mira. She will show you to your rooms.” Cain motions to Mira.

Everyone notices she is a middle age woman with short black hair and was a little on the plump side. However, she had a motherly looking face and brown eyes.

“If you’ll follow me. I’ll get you to settle.” Mira escorts the four-remaining people to their guest rooms.

Freddy is taken to Amy’s bedroom. As he walks in, he could smell how bad off she was. She had the stench of death cling to her. He moves quickly over to her side and does a scan of her body with his special ability.

He was right when he told Victor and Tielo that she had been affected by blood magic. The ruby had been mixed with the blood of the dead. It was no wonder she was slowly dying, and her blood was changing.

After his power returns to him. He looks towards Lady Joyce and Lady April “she’s beyond my skill level. She needs more powerful magic that I don’t posse.”

“Do you know who does posse the magic necessary to heal my daughter?” Lady April was worried that she might lose Amy.

“It’s only a rumor, but there is a woman who can heal your daughter. She’s the daughter of the Greek god Apollo. I don’t know how to get in touch with her. However, she does have a cousin who is the daughter of Athena and if you can find her. She might be able to tell you how to get in touch with her cousin.” Freddy had heard rumors about her but never met her before.

“Cain, can you contact the supernatural council and see if they know how to find Titanis or the daughter of Apollo.” Lady Joyce asks Cain mentally.

“Let me see what I can find out.” Cain heads towards his office to call the council.

“Thanks, Daigh for the information.” Cain hangs the phone up as he leans back in his chair.

“What did Daigh have to say about getting in touch with this Leto person?” Lady April was curious because she had never heard of her before and neither had her sister.

“Daigh said it is easy to summon Leto. All you must do is say her name out loud and clear and she’ll appear. He said out of all the Demi-gods and goddess he has dealt with, she is the most normal of them.” Cain couldn’t believe Daigh has dealt with so many demi-god/dress.

“Does she ask for anything in return for her healing services?” Lady April would pay it to save her daughter.

“No, she doesn’t.” Cain stands up and walks to the center of his office and in a clear loud voice LETO, I SUMMON YOU!”

Delphi, Greece, Temple of Apollo:

Gorgo looks up from her perch on a nice warm boulder she had curled up on. Someone was summoning Leto for help. She didn’t recognize the voice or the person who was summoning Leto.

She jumps down from her boulder and goes to locate Leto. She knew her companion/ward liked to keep busy. She checks Leto’s normal spots before she finds her in the orchard picking peaches and apples. She could never understand how Leto could be the most grounded demi-goddess she knew. She has known a few, but Leto was more flower child, then a stuck-up goddess.

“What is on your mind Gorgo?” Leto picks another peach off the trees in her garden.

“You are being summoned by an unknown person in Montana.” Gorgo sits and wraps her tail around the front of her body.

“Do you know who is summoning me?” Leto turns around with her basket almost full of picked fruit.

“No, ma’am. I have no idea who it is.” Gorgo has never felt the energy of the summon before.

“Well, let’s go and see who needs us, then.” Leto spots a few more peaches and apples that needed to be picked and cause them to fill her basket up.

She’ll give this basket to whoever it is that is summoning her. She concentrates on the person who called her named out and teleports there.
She knew Gorgo will catch up to her, as she appears in a good furnish office.

Cain’s office, Montana:
Cain had called out Leto’s name like he had been instructed to do. He had felt kind of foolish doing it, but he has known Daigh for a long time and knew it was the same way he would summon Sparrow, except he would direct his request to a shadow.

He looks over towards his wife and sister-in-law “do you think Daigh was pulling a joke on me?”

Just as Lady Joyce was about to answer his question. A woman with long auburn color curly hair and fair skin wearing a white spaghetti strap sundress appears with a basket in her hands filled with white apples and red and yellow peaches. A few seconds after she appears, a huge fluffy black fur bobcat appears and is standing next to her.

When the woman looks at Cain, he notices she had golden color pupils. Everyone in the room could feel no power from this woman at all.

“Hi, I’m Leto and I thought you might like this gift.” As Leto holds the basket out to Cain.

Cain is stun at how ordinary the woman before him looks. He was expecting someone tall and powerful. He accepts the basket filled with white skinned apples and red & yellow peaches. His nose was picking up a hint of vanilla and jasmine off her body.

“I think you broke them, Leto.” Gorgo had a smirk on her face.

Here she was among a group of Were-Tigers and they were tongue-tied. She shakes her head as she watches the person who called Leto set the full basket down on the huge hand-carved oak desk behind.

Lady Joyce was the first to recover from seeing this young woman “thank you for coming. We didn’t think it would work, just calling your name.”

Leto directs her gaze over towards a dirty blonde hair woman. She had the type of build a lot of of models would die for.

“I get that sometimes and its alright. If you don’t mind me asking, why did you summon me?” Leto wasn’t upset. She didn’t mind being summoned.

“We summoned you, because of my daughter.” Lady April had stood up off her chair to speak to Leto directly.

Leto directs her gaze to this other woman. She notices she had curly light brown hair and was a Were-Tiger as well.

“What is wrong with your daughter?” Leto was curious because could sense that both women had the healing talent inside of them.

“She’s dying from being infected by bad ruby from a necromancer. She was bitten over a hundred times defending herself and protecting a
young girl.” Lady April felt that this young woman before her should know everything.

“Hhhmm, may I see her?” Leto was concerned, because if these women couldn’t heal this child, then it was very serious.

“Yes, if you’ll follow me please.” Lady April leads the way to Amy’s bedroom.

When they arrive at the door to Amy’s room. They find Arya laying outside her bedroom door asleep. Lady April kneels and picks her sleeping daughter up off the floor.

“I’m sorry about that. She’s concerned about her sister.” Lady April holds Arya close to her.

Leto just smiles “it’s fine. My daughter was just like her.” Leto remembers finding Angela asleep next to a Snow Leopard she rescued and healed.

Lady April opens the bedroom door and the smell inside was terrible. It smelled like a spoiled rotting body.

“Man, what is causing that smell?” Gorgo couldn’t believe the smell and she has been around a lot of dead bodies before.

“Death magic.” Leto walks in and notices a teenage girl with wrinkle skin that was showing her skull underneath it.

The girl was completely bald and had sores and boils all over her body. It looked like her flesh was just rotting away from her.

“We have done everything we can to stop what whatever is affecting her, but we haven’t been able to slow it down. If nothing else, it just seemed our healing was just speeding the effects up.” Lady April was worried about her daughter.

“Whoever did this to your daughter, used death magic and a curse to affect her. It is a good thing you called me when you did. Any latter and I would have to raise her from the grave.” With a thought a box appears with all sorts of vials, dry plants and bottles of liquids.

“First we need to get rid of the curse.” Leto starts glowing a bright gold color.

Those in the room had to shield their eyes to keep from going blind. They watch as Leto places one hand on Amy’s bald head and the other on her heart. The pressure in the room starts to build, as it pressed against everyone’s body. It keeps building and building. The pressure gets so bad in the room, it felt like it was going to cause the room to explode.

“You might want to open the windows.” Leto sends her power into Amy’s body causing it to shake and jump around on the bed.

Amy’s aura appears, and it was pitch black. You couldn’t see her body at all. It was slowly burning away exposing Amy’s body. As the golden
color traveled down her body, everyone could see the curse and disease affecting Amy being cleared away and gather into a golden ball.
When Leto gets to the end of Amy’s body “step aside please.” As she walks over towards the window.

Leto tosses the globe with the blackness in it up into the sky, sending it towards the sun where it will be burned away by her father. She turns around and walks over towards Amy’s unconscious form and place her hands back on her body. She was about to heal her muteness but stops and looks at the three adults gathered in the room.

“I can give her, her voice. Do you want me too?” Leto looks at Cain, Lady Joyce, and Lady April still holding a sleeping Arya.

Cain and Lady Joyce look towards April “she’s your daughter. Do you want to give her, her voice?”

Lady April looks down at Amy. She knew Amy would have liked her voice, so she could speak with people.

“Give it too her please. Will she be able to speak right away?”

“No, you're going to have to teach her how to use speech. I have to say I have never seen an Atlantean/human hybrid not be able to speak
before. Which one of you gave birth to her?” Leto looks towards Lady Joyce and Lady April.

“We didn’t. She was created in a lab by the Human Supremacist League.” Lady Joyce and everyone present was surprised that Amy was part Atlantean.

“Are you sure, Ms. Leto that Amy is part Atlantean?” Cain was curious about that.

“I’m very sure. If the rest of the gods found out there was an Atlantean/human hybrid running around. They will be very upset. The
Atlanteans are being punished for their arrogance for thinking they were gods. That was why they were sent away from this dimension. We
only allowed a handful of Atlanteans to escape, but they were made sterile, so they couldn’t have children.” Leto was curious where Amy came from.

“With you healing her, could Amy have children now?” Lady April was curious.

“Yes, everything that was wrong with her has been healed. She is fully capable of having children of her own. All the genetic mistakes that had been made in her make-up have been fixed as well. I suggest you let her rest for the next week. No heavy lifting or serious workout, till her body adjust to what has been done to it. I also would like for you to give her this drink three times a day.” Leto searches in her box and pulls a glass bottle filled with a golden color liquid.

Leto hands the bottle to Lady Joyce since Lady April had her hands full with a sleeping girl.

Lady Joyce accepts the bottle and is curious about what was inside it. She looks towards Leto.

“What is this liquid?”

A smile appears on Leto’s kind face “it’s a special mixture of ingredients that is suited for her Atlantean metabolism. Whatever, she has been
taken wasn’t doing her body any good. Now, that her body chemistry has been fixed, she’ll need to be on a special diet.” A scroll appears in her hand.

“This should be followed to the letter to maintain her body chemistry. Should she ever decide to have children, there are directions for that as well.” Leto hands the scroll to Cain.

“We’ll make sure she follows it. I do have one question. Will Atlantis ever return to this dimension?” Cain was curious.

“Maybe. The gods haven’t decided how long they want them to pay for their crimes. As for your daughter, I don’t know where the HSL found Atlantean DNA and how they managed to merge it with human DNA, but if there are more like her. It will draw the attention of the elder gods and there will be a big problem.” Leto knew the elder gods can be so anal retentive.

“Won’t they know, because of you helping Amy?” Cain was worried for Amy.

“Nope, my father would tell them to kiss off. He has made it clear that the elder gods can’t tell me who I can or can’t bring back to life or who I can or can’t heal. Even my grandfather won’t interfere with my purpose in life.” Leto knew the Elders gods wouldn’t bother her.

“Thank you, Leto. We are in your debt.” Cain looks at his wife and sister-in-law.

“No, you aren’t Cain. I never ask for anything in return. If you ever need me again. Just call me like you did. Until we meet again.” Leto and Gorgo disappear.

“Amy did say, she was something else but didn’t know what she was.” Lady April lays Arya down next to Amy.

“Who would have thought she was part Atlantean.” Lady Joyce couldn’t believe it.

She and her sister have healed and examine Amy a thousand times, but never realize she was part Atlantean.

Several Weeks Later:
Amy was sparing with Troy as she pushes herself. She was trying to get back to her old fighting speed. So, far she was doing a hell a lot better. It seemed she had more energy and that her body was responding better than it ever had.

“You’re doing a lot better, Amy.” Troy couldn’t believe how much better Amy was getting. He was also getting use to hearing her voice as well.

“Thanks, T-Troy-y.” Amy was still getting used to speaking.

She was so used to not being able to talk at all. Since she has been healing. She has found out that she is able to do things she couldn’t before. She asked her mother what was going on, but all she would tell her was that a demi-goddess had healed her and that she had done a few things to her body.

“Break time, Amy.” Troy was under strict orders to make Amy take breaks and drink the liquid that had been left for her.

Every time it got low, it would refill itself. When Cain and Lady April asked what it tasted like, all Amy could say was apple juice. It tasted like
apple juice to her. When Lady April tasted it, it tasted like bitter grapes. It didn’t taste too great to her and numb her mouth.

Amy sat cuddled against her mother as they watched a movie later that evening. She was on one side of her mother and her little sister was on the other side of Lady April. Amy felt better and couldn’t wait to discover what she was.

During the weeks that Amy was recovering and relearning how to use her body. Tielo and Faramir were spending time together, getting to know each other. Sure, Tielo wanted to mate Faramir, but he wanted to know more about her.

Faramir found it strange her mate was a Were-Tiger. She thought her mate would either be like her or like her sister. She knew Freddy was the mate of Arial. They found that out the first time he visited them.

She looks at her mate as he exercised with the second in charge. Tielo was holding his own against Troy, but in the end, he ended up surrendering to Troy.

“Do you want to train?” Tielo wonders if his mate knew how to fight.

“Sure.” She walks over towards the weapon rack pick-up a bo-staff.

Tielo just smiles as he chooses a bo-staff and the two of them head towards the training ring. They start and within a few strikes, Tielo was laying on the ground with the end of Faramir staff under his chin. He looks up at her “let’s try that again.”

Faramir steps back and lets him up. She watches Tielo as he walks around her, looking for an opening to strike. She gives it to him and they start fighting.

Tielo matches his mate blow for blow. They continue until the Bo-staff shatters. Then they go into hand-to-hand combat. Tielo ends up pinning her to the floor and kisses her.

Faramir returns the kisses. She was ready to consummate their union. She feels Tielo scoop her up off the floor and carry her up to his room.
A couple of days later, Cain was informed a delegation of avian humanoids were flying to the mansion. Cain and Lady Joyce along with Troy and his daughter were outside when the delegation landed. Everyone was amazed that they had come. No one really thought they existed.

Cain looks at the leader and the man was huge. He stood at least seven-foot-tall and looked like a walking mountain of muscle. His wings look like they had come off a giant American Bald Eagle. The woman standing next to him, she was like six foot and eight inches tall. Her wings matched her mate and had long chocolate brown hair.

Cain looks at the leader of the Avian people “Greeting, I welcome you and your people to my territory.”

Kazan looks at the leader of the Were-Tigers and the people standing around him. He could tell the blonde haired woman standing next to him was his mate. He sensed the second and there was a normal human girl standing with him. He wonders what her relationship was to the
second.

He didn’t see his adopted daughter. Word had gotten to him that she had found her mate, like his daughter Arial, had found her mate among this pride of Were-Tigers.

“I’m Kazan, leader of Eagle Nest. This is my wife Sava.” As he motions to the woman standing next to him with the brown hair.

“It’s nice to meet you, Kazan and Sava. Allow me to introduce my wife, Lady Joyce McGregor.” Cain motions to Lady Joyce standing next to him.

“Sava looks at Lady Joyce and could sense she was a Were-Lion and a powerful one. She could tell she was a descendant of the ancient
Egyptian lion-headed god of war Maahes himself. As for Cain, she could tell he came from a long line of natural born Were’s.

“The reason I and my council are here Cain is to establish a treaty with you. Two of my daughters have become mates to two of your people.” Kazan knew it was a risk to bring his council, but from what he learned about Cain McGregor.

He was an honorable man and could be trusted. Also, having a treaty or alliance with Cain could be beneficial to his people. The women of his nest weren’t producing babies as often as they should. Which meant maybe their mates might be outside their community.

“I would be interested in creating an alliance between us. Let’s head inside and get to know each.” Cain was interested in establishing an alliance with Kazan.

They head inside to talk and get to know each other better.